Brown, Glen James
Mother Naked
- ISBN 13:
- 9781913512484
- author:
- Brown, Glen James
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Peninsula Press Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 20 x 2 centimetres (0.22 kg
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Legend of the Fell Wraith has been passed down through generations in the City of Durham. In 1434, an aging minstrel named Mother Naked arrives at the cathedral to share this tale with the city's most powerful men. He speaks of the gruesome 'walking ghost' said to have slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston forty years earlier. As Mother Naked weaves the strands of the mystery - of class, religion, art and ale - he reveals a chilling truth that might be closer to his privileged audience than they could ever imagine. Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasant's Revolt, this story speaks back from the margins, in a fury of imaginative recuperation. The story is inspired by a single payment entered into Durham's Cathedral rolls, where 'Modyr Nakett' - the lowest-paid performer in over 200 years of records - appears. This haunting tale has been preserved for centuries, waiting to be uncovered by those willing to listen.
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