Blue Hawk

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A lovely immersive elegiac novel for a lost way of life. I revelled in the author's gorgeous descriptions of the natural world and her knowledge of the arts of dyeing cloth using native plants and felt as if I learned a lot from her extensive research - Jane Johnson author of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Black Crescent</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Court of Lions</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>The Binding</em> meets <em>Weyward</em> in this evocative 17th-century page-turner</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Joan's future looks bleak but her new skill gives it colour...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When Joan discovers her father has drunk away the family's money she starts to master the beautiful but tough art of cloth-dying desperate to save her family from poverty.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As her success builds her isolation grows too - her profession stirs whispers of witchcraft and her rivalry with her sister Alice deepens. But she is determined to rebuild her family's reputation and as the colours soak into her cloth hope starts to seep into her life too.</span></p><p><br></p>