Tender: A Novel

A debut, folkloric, body horror-tinged novel following a botanist who is tasked with unearthing truths about several bodies discovered in ritualistic, floral graves in South West England and who ends up digging deeper into her own unsettling past.

Nell has curated a perfect museum of the self: a successful career in archaeobotany, a pastel Instagram filled with flowers, and an uncompromising manicure routine. She’s convinced that her veneer of perfection will mask the parts of her she’d rath...