**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 ‘A sensational piece of storytelling … A singular and significant achievement’ GUARDIAN‘Marvellous, artful, enchanted’ DAILY TELEGRAPH'Cements Myers’s standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWSThe triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning 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 Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a contemporary England defined by class and austerity.