Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. ‘This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully, that as soon as I’d finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again.’ Jessie Burton ‘Amazing… disturbing and touching’ Maggie O’Farrell in The Times By drawing a parallel between Iron Age ritual sacrifice and present-day domestic violence, Moss eviscerates the societal. ‘Is Sarah Moss the best British writer never nominated for the Booker? … as brief and unsettling as a bolt of lightning… pins us to the page with creeping menace’ Daily Mail ‘ one of the finest contemporary writers working in Britain today’ Stylist How she hasn’t been nominated for the Man Booker Prize continues to mystify me’ The Independent ‘…one of our very best contemporary novelists. ‘ Ghost Wall is a burnished gem of a book, brief and brilliant, and with it Moss’s star is firmly in the ascendant’ Guardian ‘Moss has quietly… been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years… Ghost Wall… is her best novel yet’ Financial Times ‘Like nothing I have read before… stayed with me all summer… It deserves to on to the prize podiums.’ The Times
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