Tender - Lauren Du Plessis Paperback / softback This is the territory of

This is the territory of novels and poems

only nine days after a cancer diagnosis

As participants themselves

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

Tender - Lauren Du Plessis Paperback / softback This is the territory ofNell 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,