Tender - Lauren Du Plessis Paperback / softback only nine days after a

only nine days after a cancer diagnosis

From the banks of the Mother River

forced into hiding as her activist peers are lifted from the streets

This is the territory of novels and poems

As participants themselves

Tender - Lauren Du Plessis Paperback / softback only nine days after aNell has curated a perfect museum of the self: a successful career in archaeobotany, a pastel Instagram filled with flowers, and an uncompromising manicure routine. She's convinced that her veneer of perfection will mask the parts of her she'd rather not think about. When two `bog bodies' are discovered in elaborate floral graves in a Somerset fen, Nell seizes the opportunity to excavate their secrets. But the deeper she digs into the fertile,