Tender

Dark truths are unearthed in South West England through a folkloric, body horror-tinged lens in Lauren Du Plessis's haunting debut novel, Tender.

When two "bog bodies" are discovered in elaborate floral graves in a Somerset fen, Nell-a successful archaeobotanist with an uncompromising veneer of perfection-seizes the opportunity to excavate their secrets. But the deeper she digs into the fertile, waterlogged earth, the more she uncovers memories of her unsettled childhood and strained relati...