NESS (PB)

Inspired by the bleak and ghostly salt marshes of Orford Ness - where for seventy years, British scientists conducted military research on the empty land - this astonishing collaboration reimagines the timeless 'green man' fable for the age of nuclear warheads, illustrated with haunting cross-hatch etchings. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.