
Synopsis
‘Haunting and beautiful… [Mere] will stay with me for a long time to come’ Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb
Norfolk, 990 AD. Deep in the Fens, an order of holy sisters live in quiet isolation, cut off from the outside world by a treacherous marsh known as the mere. Hilda, the convent’s healer, and her fellow nuns follow God’s path under the steely guidance of their Abbess.
But when a young servant boy goes missing in the marsh, the Abbess’s grip falters as rumour and division spread like wildfire through the community. Where is the boy? Who took him? Why can he not be found?
Then, newly arrived Sister Wulfrun has a vision: a curse is upon them and change must be brought. As the convent is swept up in a fight for its very survival, Hilda finds herself caught in her own battle: between her conscience and her growing feelings for the enigmatic Wulfrun…
‘A forbidden and passionate love story which held me captivated to the last page’
Anya Bergman, author of The Witches of Vardo
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A dark and disturbing tale set in an East Anglian abbey in Dark Ages England, where the old pagan Gods are meeting a fledgling Christianity. A supernatural mystery, a political power struggle, a romance, a woman bringing compassion and healing to a brutal world, and fenland ripe with stagnant secrets. Beautifully written, you will be drawn into the claustrophobic world of the mere, where sinners fear the retribution of both God and the devil
It is rare for an author to fully recreate the strangeness of the past, but Danielle Giles has done exactly that. Through eerie, beautiful writing, she takes readers on a mystery in Medieval Norfolk, until, like the proud, resourceful women of this novel, one can't help but be swallowed into one of the damp mouths of the mere. This is a gem of a novel
Chilling, dark and immersive, I raced through Mere. I loved the originality of the story and the brave and unexpected use of language. Such a treat of a novel
This is an artful and atmospheric novel that reveals uncomfortable truths about the way we lived then and, for the thoughtful, the way we live now