Black Wood Women
We know the truths men have forgotten…
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 men’s 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.
Michael Stewart is the author of three other novels: King Crow
(winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award), Café Assassin
and Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff; two short story
collections: Mr Jolly and Four Letter Words; two poetry
collections: Couples and The Dogs; and a hybrid memoir: Walking
the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps.
He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four
monumental stones situated in the landscape between the
Brontë sisters’ birthplace and the parsonage where they lived,
inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette
Winterson and Jackie Kay.
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