Wakenhyrst is a framed narrative set in Edwardian Suffolk, at the Sterne family’s ancestral marshland home of Wakes End.
Wakenhyrst combines elements of all the things I adore, medieval history and religious imagery, the Anglo-Saxon language, the unromantic beauty of the East-Anglian marshes, gothic themes, visceral horror, and the astute exploration of gender and class issues in Edwardian Britain. I fear anything I write will not do this otherworldly novel justice, but I shall try.
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver is one such book. Those dripping trees.”Įvery so often I come across a novel that touches the very core of my being with its beauty.
That out there is all you can trust: that hedge and that wet grass.
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