Black Wood Women

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We know the truths men have forgotten

Visceral, twisting, propulsive Black Wood Women begs to be devoured Stacey Halls

'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail

'Will leave you breathless Sunday Post

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The last wolf in England hunts for prey. Exhausted, hungry and alone, she fears for the litter of pups she carries, and the men who seek to wipe her out.

Yorkshire, 1649.

Since they fled Ireland, Caragh and her family have hidden their true identities to enable them to start a new life in England. But when Caragh finds her parents brutally murdered by a Protestant determined to rid the area of Catholics, she must flee again.

Travelling east, she comes to a forest, where she meets a coven of women who wear their hair loose and refuse to follow mens rules.

Having found acceptance at last, Caragh is unaware that a different kind of persecution stalks the black wood women, and their days in the forest are numbered.

Reviews

'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail

'A vivid, inventive narrative' Sunday Times

'A really beautiful blend of history and fantasy delivered in gorgeously lyrical language' Best

A devilishly impassioned danse macabre of a novel that grips the reader by the hand and refuses to let go from the first to the last page Essie Fox

'Complex and heartbreaking, a liminal thing that burns with the heat haze of history and fiction meeting Stewarts Black Wood Women is an utterly compelling read' A.G. Slatter

'Black Wood Women has the lived-in realism of a great and well-researched historical fiction, and distinguishes itself with its playful, inventive, and occasionally gut-wrenching storytelling. Michael Stewart has written something altogether his own with this one.' Nick Cutter

Praise for the author

An astonishing novel The Independent

'Easily outdoes the original Heathcliff The Times Literary Supplement

'Beautifully written and thrillingYorkshire Post

'Visceral and unswerving Historia Magazine

Author Bio

Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King's Cross Award for New Writing. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011. It won the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. He works as a is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is the director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival.