Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023Winner of the Winston Graham Historical PrizeShortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeChosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times Guardian Telegraph and New StatesmanAn epic the north has long deserved FINANCIAL TIMES A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement GUARDIANMarvellous artful enchanted DAILY TELEGRAPHCements Myerss standing as one of our finest and most deftly imaginative writers I NEWSThe triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prizewinning author of The Gallows Pole and The OffingCuddy 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 Christianslaying 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.