Parch Marks
by Anna Orridge / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 288pp.
GoldSF series
Humans have always left their scars on the landscape, but what of the marks it makes on us?
Parch Marks is about a TV archaeologist who participates in an excavation in a Northern England transformed by climate change and authoritarianism. Her story intersects with that of a Bronze Age woman who once lived on the site being surveyed.
In these intimate, character-driven stories humans must cope with living under the stress of climatic changes, resource depletion and huge societal upheaval — with specific pressures brought to bear on women and queer people.
Cover illustration Heather Ryerson
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