Summerwater

The devastating novel from Sarah Moss, author of Women's Prize longlisted Ghost Wall.

'Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment . . . it throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel Set in an isolated Scottish cabin park, Summerwater takes place over the course of one long, bleakly rainy summer's day. A group of optimistic holidaymakers are thrown into close quarters at a lochside chalet park, bored and trapped in their fading holiday rentals by the relentless downpour. One particular family begins to rub the others the wrong way and gradually tensions rise as the hours creep by, but no one can imagine the events that lie ahead as darkness falls. Sharp, devastating and timely, Sarah Moss's newest novel is the perfect follow up to her Women's Prize longlisted Ghost Wall.

Vorwort
The devastating novel from Sarah Moss, author of Women's Prize longlisted Ghost Wall.

Autorentext
Sarah Moss is the author of several novels including Summerwater, and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea. Her novel Ghost Wall was longlisted for the Women's Prize in 2019. Sarah was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, West Cornwall and the Midlands, she now lives in Dublin where she teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at UCD.

Klappentext

'Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch. Deft and brimming with life, Summerwater is a novel of endless depth. A masterpiece.' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
'Summerwater is a triumph and confirms Sarah Moss as one of the best writers at work in Britain today.' Fiona Mozley, author of Elmet
'Summerwater is a beautiful book, written with delicacy and grace, yet with an undertow as dark as the Scottish loch by which its characters are holidaying in ignorance of the tragedy to come. If you are a huge fan of Moss's work, as I am, you will find yourself parcelling it out, to read a chapter a day, like a gift.' Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard
'With delicate precision, Summerwater takes the moral and emotional temperature of a whole society. It is matchless, too, in its blending of steely insight with humour and compassion.' Pankraj Mishra, The Age of Anger

Zusammenfassung
The devastating novel from Sarah Moss, author of Women's Prize longlisted Ghost Wall.