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'A slave queen, a reclusive sorceress, and a wife conjured from flowers unite to avenge themselves on the most dangerous man in ancient legend.
Gwydion is a powerful sorcerer, whose ambition and cruelty wreak havoc across the kingdom. When at last the earth itself is put at stake, the women he humiliates draw on the power of nature herself to challenge him.
In this vital and visceral retelling the Mabinogion, the oldest story in British literature and precursor of fantasy fiction, Brigid Lowe casts ancient light on desire, sex and our relationship with nature, to bring Celtic myth to explosive, sensuous, blossoming new life.'
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SHIVER
In my early forties I began my life all over again...and found dangers I had never imagined along the way. But by immersion in a hundred Scottish lochs and pools, I found a way to swim towards a better understanding of myself and my past, of recklessness and safety, of womanhood and motherhood, of perception, sensation, pain and pleasure, of my new country and its natural and cultural history, of nature and our relationship to her - and towards a new, fluid sense of being in the world.
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As well as all these things, Shiver is a love-letter to Caledonia and the other Celtic lands to which I belong - their flowers and rocks, bogs and hills and legends - and to the wild water that swept me off my feet only to carry me back home again.
Brigid Lowe
writes about nature, myth, magic, flowers, art, science, sexual and class politics, and her wildest dreams and furthest adventures.
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Her first novel, The Bloody Branch, a feminist ecogothic retelling of the Welsh myths of her childhood, is forthcoming with Harvill Secker/Vintage in January 2026. The book to follow is a memoir and nature travelogue about wild water and new beginnings. She is currently working on a prequel to The Bloody Branch and a novel about a walled garden where a good life must be chosen.
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About Brigid Lowe
I'm a freelance writer and former academic, recently emerged from the bunker where I mothered my three now mainly-teenage children. I'm from Wales but now settled in Edinburgh. I write about nature, natural science, and parts of female experience which rarely get into print. I am inspired by the vivid, half-remembered light cast on all these things by our oldest stories, in myth, folk songs and tales.
