Oxblood

**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award**<BR>**A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year**<BR>**Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023**<BR>**Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022**<BR><BR>'Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can't take us, if the writer is brave enough, and gifted enough' FRANCIS SPUFFORD<BR>'The master of northern noir' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'Brilliant' DENISE MINA<BR> 'An absolute triumph' GUARDIAN<BR>'Powerful and so beautifully written' HARRIET TYCE, Sunday Times-bestselling author of BLOOD ORANGE<BR><BR>________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover.<BR><BR>Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________________________<BR><BR>'If I read a better novel than Oxblood in 2022, it'll be a blinding year for fiction' JOSEPH KNOX<BR>'A propulsive, bountiful, fearless work of art' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE<BR>'One of the most powerful and urgent writers of our times' DAVID PEACE