Brave, bold and brilliantly alive, Cuddy calls forth the voices and the places of the north in a kaleidoscopic portrait through time. Myers at his best: dark, sharp, earthy and superbly funny. Cuddy isn't a novel, it's an invocation -- ROB COWEN, author of Common Ground
Cuddy is a work of art. Ben Myers has pulled off a kind of magic trick ... Daring, expansive and deeply satisfying, Cuddy is a truly original piece of writing which weaves a special kind of magic. I was left completely spellbound. I loved every minute of this dazzling and deeply original novel -- CLOVER STROUD, author of The Red of My Blood
Once again Ben Myers has built another time machine in words and I thoroughly enjoyed being humped around early medieval northern England alongside St Cuthbert's holy corpse via centuries of fisticuffs and up Durham Cathedrals tower to a sensitive take on issues of our own time. Most of all I appreciated how Myers explores faith and belief without the usual eyeroll and cynicism of our excessively secular age - I feel St Cuthbert's monks and masons looking down through history with a certain sense of pride -- LUKE TURNER, author of Out of the Woods
To be able to move from the Dark Ages, to the Middle Ages, to the Victorian Era to Modern Times and so ably capture the zeitgeist of each is a rare feat of imagination -- GABRIELLE DRAKE
A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent -- ALEX PRESTON
A genre-melding experimental novel * GUARDIAN, Best Books of 2023 *
Here is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they are * THE TIMES *
No one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Benjamin Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of art -- WENDY ERSKINE
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation * DAILY MAIL *
No one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Ben Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of art -- WENDY ERSKINE
Shot through with a romantic, even mystical radicalism of the kind that William Blake would have approved of * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous -- MAX PORTER
Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own -- JOHN MITCHINSON
A powerful new voice * GUARDIAN *
Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times -- DAVID PEACE
A draft of cool, clear water ... He's such a good and brave writer * MONOCLE *
Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own -- JOHN MITCHINSON
