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Blackwood

By Hannah Eaton
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Blackwood is a graphic novel mystery set in the small English town of Hundersby, where two murders, occurring 65 years apart, echo each other with hints of ritual and the occult. The story unfolds through 93-year-old Peg and her 11-year-old great-grandson Mason, revealing dark secrets entwined with local politics and family histories that preserve the traditional soul of England at any cost.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric mysteries, folk horror, and graphic novels with layered storytelling that explore tradition, superstition and social complexities in small-town England.

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A unique graphic novel of a small town community creates a mini-Middlemarch with a Wicker Man twist in a beautifully drawn murder mystery. Blackwood is set in a rural town in middle England where the residents are determined to preserve the status quo at any cost.

Guardian: Best Comics of 2020; Turnaround: Book of the Month, Gnash Comics: Book of the Month; Win Wiacek’s Top Ten Comics of 2020

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Blackwood is a graphic novel mystery set in the small town of Hundersby, where two murders happen many years apart. Peg, and her great-grandson, Mason, hold clues to the town's secrets, but does anyone want to know?

A pair of murders has occurred 65 years apart, uncanny echoes of each other, in the ancient woodland beside Blackwood, a small town in middle England. Both evidence and local lore suggest overtones of ritual or of the occult. Past and present collide in the mind of 93-year-old Peg, while through her great-grandson 11-year-old Mason, and other members of her family, we soon discover that the town and Peg's own life are full of secrets.

Blackwood gradually reveals the dark soul of the town, where local politics and the human heart conspire to preserve England - its meadows, lanes and shadows at any cost.

'And that will be England gone, The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs...' — Philip Larkin

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Hannah Berry, UK Comics Laureate, calls it a 'brilliant and deeply foreboding triumph of folk horror,' praising its intergenerational web of tradition and trauma. Reviewers highlight Eaton's deft storytelling as 'dark, disturbing and decidedly delectable' and 'unnerving brilliance,' comparing it favourably to Scandi-dramas and noting its compelling blend of humour, horror and social commentary.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781908434715

Publisher: Myriad Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Myriad Editions

Illustration: fully illustrated throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Hannah Eaton is an artist and writer. She is the author of Naming Monsters, a graphic novel published by Myriad Editions and shortlisted for the First Graphic Novel Competition and the Ninth Art Prize. She has been a barmaid, a teacher, a support worker, one half of a comedy duo, a learning mentor, a carer for young people and a graphic novelist. She was born in London and lives in Brighton with a teenager and a black dog who, as far as she knows, is not a death omen.

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