Brigid Lowe grew up in remote Wales, where lessons were Bible stories, folk tales and immaculate cursive writing. She speaks Welsh, though her parents are Irish, and she now lives with her children in Scotland. Her part of Scotland is known as Yr Hen Ogled - ''The Old North'' - because it was formerly part of one Cumbric kingdom with Wales. She is descended from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass mercenary warriors. Brigid studied literature, first at Bangor, and then at Oxford and Cambridge, where she published a book and many articles on the art of the novel. She now works as a tutor, ghost writer and market-seller.

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Brigid Lowe grew up in a remote Welsh-speaking community on Ynys Môn, with her younger sister and Irish immigrant parents. She now lives with her children in that part of Scotland known as Yr Hen Ogledd The Old North formerly joined with Wales in one Cumbric nation. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and went on to teach and research at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities, publishing a book and many essays on the art of fiction. Brigid traces her descent from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. She takes photographs of flowers, forages her food, clambers pinnacles, and swims in ice and caves and bottomless pools.

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Man is cruel but the flowers will take their revenge. A gorgeously dark and magical novel inspired by three Celtic heroines.

Darkness is falling across the land. All that stands against it are three determined women: slave queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, and Blodeuwedd, a woman conjured from flowers. Can they unite against the deadly force who threatens them all?

The sadistic ambition of the magician Gwydion wreaks havoc across the forests, cliffs and fields of the kingdom. With the earth itself at stake, Goewin, Arianrhod and Blodeuwedd must unleash their most uncanny powers to challenge him.

In this vital and visceral novel, Brigid Lowe casts ancient light on desire, sex and our relationship with nature to bring these Celtic heroines to explosive, sensuous, blossoming new life.