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Title:
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Bog Queen, The |
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Authors:
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North, Anna |
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Genre:
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Fiction |
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Pages:
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288 |
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Year:
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2025 |
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Publisher:
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Bloomsbury |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body 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.
Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land 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 faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she's also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world. Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary 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. Bloomsbury, Taken from the book blurb.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:
A unique story with an interesting premise! This book felt well-researched, both from a scientific and historic perspective.
If you are interested in forensics or ancient history, then this is the book for you.
Highly engaging - the juxtaposition of the three viewpoints, rendered sequentially, gave a refreshing change of pace at important points in the story.
What a beautiful story - grim in parts, but beautifully written and so interesting. I found it fascinating to learn about the Druids and the nature of mossy bogs.
I hadn't read anything set in that historical era before, so I enjoyed learning about what life was like then.
Each of the young females exhibited human uncertainty and performance anxiety with which many women can identify.
The dreamy calm certainty of the moss was/is a delight on so many levels - this is a great story, well-written and complex.
The author has done a lot of research and very cleverly ties in the needs of the forensic team with the environmental risks of disturbing the bog. A great read.
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