Cuddy

by Benjamin Myers (Author)
Format: Paperback / softback 464 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526631466
Published: 1 Feb 2024
Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Weight: 320g
Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 32 (mm)

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles historical eras - from the first Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.

Along the way we meet brewers and masons, archers and academics, monks and labourers, their visionary voices and stories echoing through their ancestors and down the ages. And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage – their dreams, desires, connections and communities.

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023

Shortlisted for the Winston Graham Historical Prize

Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman

‘An epic the north has long deserved’ Financial Times