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 rich, raw landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

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Anna North is the author of three novels: Outlawed, America Pacifica, and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Published in 2021, Outlawed was a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club and Belletrist pick. In addition to her fiction writing, she is also a senior correspondent at Vox, covering American work and family life. Previously, she was a writer and editor at the New York Times, Salon, BuzzFeed and Jezebel. Anna North grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2009, and now lives in Brooklyn.

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'An iridescent contemporary folktale' LUCY ROSE
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'A mesmerising novel' OBSERVER**
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'Sparkles like unearthed treasure' KALIANE BRADLEY**

Agnes, a young forensic anthropologist, 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 she has seen before - its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost perfectly preserved.

Soon, Agnes is drawn into a complex, ancient mystery: the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows.

Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen weaves together the lives of two young women separated by many centuries - and connected by a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.