**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023****Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize****Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize****Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman**-An epic the north has long deserved- FINANCIAL TIMES -A sensational piece of storytelling - A singular and significant achievement- GUARDIAN-Marvellous, artful, enchanted- DAILY TELEGRAPH''Cements Myers-s standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers'' I NEWSThe triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The OffingCuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England.Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other, Cuddy straddles