Bog queen a novel
"When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. Agnes has always been more comfortable with the dead than the living, but thisbody is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand y...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2025.
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| Summary: | "When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. Agnes has always been more comfortable with the dead than the living, but thisbody is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved. The mystery of the Iron Age body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests : the archaeologists who want to study the surrounding bog, the peat-cutters who want to profit from the land's resources, and a group of environmental activists and neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place and that the moss-layered bog -- a marvel of carbon capture on a warming planet -- be left undisturbed. Then there's the moss itself ; a complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell. As Agnes is drawn into the controversy stirred by the body and its habitat, she must face not only the deep history of what she has unearthed, but also the relationships she has forsworn in her bid for independence. Vividly flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawnof the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with climate urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 264 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781635579666 163557966X |
| Author Notes: | She is the author of America Pacifica. Her recent book, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) |
