Pig Boy

Culhwch (Pig Boy) is cursed to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant. He must seek support from King Arthur and the non-human realm to win her love and celebrate their marriage. This epic tale of ancient myth resonates with how we make a future, calling on the land and beyond.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2023
Publisher: Cinnamon Press

Cursed with love by his step-mother, Culhwch (Pig Boy) is condemned to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant—pitiless, violent, and huge. So begins the quest—first to the court of King Arthur to win support for the quest. In this earliest and earthiest of Arthurian tales, we are in the grip of the Otherworld, where landscape, nature, and doing what we can to make a better future, no matter how impossible that might seem, are everything. Making a future despite the odds and despite the terrible and debilitating pain that afflicts Pig Boy as part of his love of Olwen will see him tested him again and again as he faces each task along the quest, the last to hunt the Great Wild Boar and seize the golden comb and scissors from between its ears so that the Hawthorn Giant can have his beard trimmed and hair combed for his daughters wedding. Will the marriage finally be celebrated? And what help will Pig Boy need to summon—not only from the court of Arthur and its warrior class but from everyone in the kingdom and from the non-human realm with its deep magic? An epic tale of ancient myth, the story of Pig Boy continues to resonate today with how we go on making a future, calling on the land and whatever and whoever might help, human and beyond. An ambitious, compelling, and powerful debut from master storyteller, Michael Harvey.

Weight: 392g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788649728