Sarah Moss

An extraordinary novel, Ripeness is a story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers.

Just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a call which will seal this baby’s fate, and his mother’s.

Pushing at the boundaries of memoir writing, Sarah Moss investigates contested memories of a girlhood with embattled, distracted parents, loving grandparents, and teachers who said she would never learn to read.

My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.

They rarely speak to each other, but they take notice - watching from the safety of their cabins, peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish summer day, making judgments from what little they know of their temporary neighbors....

Only weeks into their marriage, a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation....

On the longest day of the summer, 12 people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents....

Silvie's family joins an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past....

From the Sunday Times best-selling author of Summerwater, The Fell is a novel for our times - the story of a woman in quarantine who can’t take it any more and goes hill-walking at dusk....

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 lo largo de sus diecisiete años de vida, Silvie ha aprendido de su padre, aficionado a la historia de la Edad del Hierro, cómo vivían...