Bog Queen

De: Anna North

Narrado por: Lily Newmark

'AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE' LUCY ROSE
'AN ABSOLUTE ASTONISHMENT' VAUHINI VARA
'A LIGHTNING STRIKE OF A NOVEL' JUNG YUN

Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is a novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Outlawed
In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved.

The body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: archaeologists desperate to study the bog, those who want to profit from the land's resources, a group of neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place. And underfoot, all along, there's the land itself: a teeming colony of moss, with its own dark stories to tell.

As Agnes becomes tangled in controversies stirred by her own discovery, she must face the deep history of what she has unearthed. Equally alive to post-Brexit England and Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen connects across time two young women learning to harness their strange strengths, in a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

©2025 Anna North (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

'A page-turning mystery and a graceful, sincere evocation of internal and external power struggles in changing worlds, from Roman Britain to a climate-broken UK. Bog Queen sparkles like unearthed treasure' (Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of THE MINISTRY OF TIME)

'Bog Queen is a story I won't soon forget: exquisitely observed and filled with details about moss, druids, and dead bodies I wasn't aware I needed to know (but am now pleased to). Daring, delightful, and moving, this novel should be required reading for all of us facing a changing climate and uncertain future. I loved being inside Anna North's curious, compassionate perspective; I'll follow her anywhere, and to any time' (Rachel Khong, bestselling author of REAL AMERICANS)