Sarah Moss

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

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 . . .

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_.

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 arqueología 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 días, Silvie se da cuenta de que el afán 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 qué estará dispuesto a sacrificar en nombre de la pureza cultural.