{"product_id":"9781913512484","title":"Mother Naked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Brown, Glen James \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 06\/06\/2024 by Peninsula Press Ltd in the United Kingdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003c\/p\u003e200 x 130 x 20mm | 214g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome ‘walking ghost’ some say slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston forty years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut is this monster only a myth, born from the dim minds of toiling peasants? Or does the Wraith – and do the murders – have roots in real events suffered by those fated to a lifetime of labour? As Mother Naked weaves the strands of the mystery – of class, religion, art, and ale – it starts to seem as though the chilling truth might be closer to his privileged audience than they could ever imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its inspiration from a single payment entered into Durham’s Cathedral rolls, ‘Modyr Nakett’ was lowest-paid performer in over 200 years of records. Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasant’s Revolt, Mother Naked speaks back from the margins in a fury of imaginative recuperation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491390324942,"sku":"9781913512484","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9781913512484.jpg?v=1776348696","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9781913512484","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}