Sarah Moss

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement.Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal - and losing - battle to gain her mother''s approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship and is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn''t seem good enough.The first in a two-book sequence, Bodies of Light will propel Sarah Moss into the upper echelons of British novelists. It is a triumphant piece of historical fiction and a profoundly moving master class in characterisation.

La Silvie, encara adolescent, passa unes setmanes destiu amb els seus pares en una acampada al nord dAnglaterra. Participen en una recreació historica amb un professor darqueologia i un petit grup dalumnes que estudien els britans, antics pobladors de la Gran Bretanya durant ledat del ferro. El pare-conductor dautobus i historiador aficionat- es un home obsessionat amb reviure la dura existencia daquests homes de lantiguitat, i persegueix una mena de puresa i autenticitat perdudes: la convivencia amb la natura, explorar a la recerca de menjar, vestir-se amb parracs, practicar rituals i sacrificis ...Afllats en un territori aspre, amb objectius dispars sobre la recreacio historica, la convivencia entre uns i altres no sera senzilla. Viure a la intemperie exacerba les relacions; els instints autoritaris i violents semblen trobar-hi via lliure, i la recreacio sacosta a un climax inesperat.Escollit un deis llibres de lany per The Times , The Guardian , The Times Literary Supplement , The Spectator , Financial Times i New Statesman .

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter''s school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing. The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed.In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn''t dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence.

Adam Goldschmidt, un universitaire, a toujours fait passer sa famille avant sa carrière. Depuis quinze ans, c’est lui qui s’occupe des enfants et gère leur quotidien. Quand sa fille aînée Miriam perd

Adam Goldschmidt, un universitaire, a toujours fait passer sa famille avant sa carrière. Depuis quinze ans, c’est lui qui s’occupe des enfants et gère leur quotidien. Quand sa fille aînée Miriam perd

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders. The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence, the way we try to control children, and about women's vexed and passionate relationship with work. Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range - showing her to be both an excellent comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.

A finales del verano, un grupo de arqueólogos viaja a las costas de Groenlandia para buscar los restos de una civilización perdida: la que fundaron en el año 982 los primeros colonos escandinavos, que desaparecieron misteriosamente de la isla a comienzos del siglo XV. Sin embargo, cuando llega el duro invierno glacial, quedan atrapados entre el frío y la nieve, sin conexión a internet y rodeados por los espectros que todavía persisten en la zona. Así, aislados del mundo, los arqueólogos se enfrentarán a la escasez de alimentos y a sus propios fantasmas con el temor de que nadie, quizás, vaya a rescatarlos, pues un virus mortal acaba de propagarse por la tierra y amenaza con diezmar a la humanidad.

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing.

Acclaimed author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss is back with a sharply observed and darkly funny novel for our times. 'A tense page turner . .. I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue'Gripping, thoughtful and revelatory' - Paula Hawkins'This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year' - Rachel Joyce'Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist's can be' The Times At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period, but she just can't take it any more - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement.And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know. But Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing.And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain rescue operation . .. Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive, and it will move you to tears.'One of our very best contemporary novelists' - Independent

C’est le jour le plus long de l’été et la pluie semble ne jamais vouloir s’arrêter. Cloitrées dans les chalets décatis d’un village vacances écossais, six familles s’observent les unes les autres der

C’est le jour le plus long de l’été et la pluie semble ne jamais vouloir s’arrêter. Cloitrées dans les chalets décatis d’un village vacances écossais, six familles s’observent les unes les autres der

Bill Hampton est chauffeur de bus. Nationaliste sans nuance, il se passionne pour l’histoire britannique qu’il étudie à ses moments perdus. Mais pour sa fille adolescente, Silvie, ce qui le caractéri

Bill Hampton est chauffeur de bus. Nationaliste sans nuance, il se passionne pour l’histoire britannique qu’il étudie à ses moments perdus. Mais pour sa fille adolescente, Silvie, ce qui le caractéri

A lo largo de sus diecisiete años de vida, Silvie ha aprendido de su padre, aficionado a la historia de la Edad de Hierro, cómo vivían los antiguos britanos y también cómo morían algunos de ellos: víctimas de ofrendas rituales a manos de su propia tribu. La familia de Silvie participa en una experiencia organizada por un profesor de arqueologia para sus estudiantes: recrear, en una acampada en el norte de Inglaterra, la vida de los britanos, adoptar sus costumbres y adaptarse a sus condiciones de vida. A medida que pasan los dias, Silvie se da cuenta de que el afan de su padre por imitar con la mayor fidelidad el pasado pone en peligro el delicado equilibrio de la convivencia del grupo, y se pregunta con pavor que estara dispuesto a sacrificar en nombre de la pureza cultural.

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss' Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands . . .'Superb' - The Times'Sharp, searching . . . utterly of the moment' - Hilary Mantel'So accomplished' - GuardianIt is the summer solstice, but in a faded Scottish cabin park the rain is unrelenting. Twelve people on holiday with their families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey. A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a teenage boy chances the dark waters of the loch in his kayak; a retired couple head out despite the downpour, driving too fast on the familiar bends.But there are newcomers too, and one particular family, a mother and daughter with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners, start to draw the attention of the others. Who are they? Where are they from? Should they be here at all? As darkness finally falls, something is unravelling . . .

From bestselling author Sarah Moss a boundary breaking memoir about the battleground of the female body and about how reading and thinking can save you

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, now a major TV series.From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss, Summerwater is a simmering story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish Highlands. Superb - The TimesSharp, searching . . . utterly of the moment - Hilary MantelBeautifully written, intense, powerful - David NichollsIt is the summer solstice, but in a faded Scottish cabin park the rain is unrelenting. Twelve families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey. But there is one particular family, a mother and daughter, with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners. They start to draw the attention of the others. Who are they? Where are they from?Tensions are rising, something is unravelling, and as darkness finally falls, a match is lit . . . A masterpiece - Jessie BurtonOne of her best - Irish TimesSo accomplished - Guardian

Winner of Scotlands Non-Fiction Book of the YearA memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape - The Daily TelegraphDevastating, funny . . . a brave and important book - Melissa HarrisonFull of daring . . . revelatory - The ObserverAn observational masterpiece - The iIn the household of Sarah Mosss childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small.Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency, forcing her to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarahs every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other.Compulsive and compelling - Emilie PineConfronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be - Jan CarsonMoss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelists can be - The Times

From bestselling author Sarah Moss a boundary breaking memoir about the battleground of the female body and about how reading and thinking can save you

La Silvie, encara adolescent, passa unes setmanes d'estiu amb els seus pares en una acampada al nord d'Anglaterra. Participen en una recreació historica amb un professor d'arqueologia i un petit grup d'alumnes que estudien els britans, antics pobladors de la Gran Bretanya durant l'edat del ferro. El pare ?conductor d'autobus i historiador aficionat? es un home obsessionat amb reviure la dura existencia d'aquests homes de l'antiguitat, i persegueix una mena de puresa i autenticitat perdudes: la convivencia amb la natura, explorar a la recerca de menjar, vestir-se amb parracs, practicar rituals i sacrificis... Allats en un territori aspre, amb objectius dispars sobre la recreacio historica, la convivencia entre uns i altres no sera senzilla. Viure a la intemperie exacerba les relacions; els instints autoritaris i violents semblen trobar-hi via lliure, i la recreacio s'acosta a un climax inesperat. Escollit un dels llibres de l'any per _The Times_,a_The Guardian_, _The Times Literary Supplement_, _The Spectator_, _Financial Times_ i _New Statesman_.