Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
'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,author of The Miniaturist
Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology.
Her father is a difficult man,obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. 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.
Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783784462Number of pages: 160Weight: 119 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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'Moss combines exquisite nature writing,original characters and a cracking plot to make a wonderful literary curiosity.'- The Times
'Moss appears to collapse layers of history,to render skin and knife and rope identical across millennia.'- The Observer
'I love this book. Ghost Wall requires you to put your life on hold wile you finish it'- Maggie O'Farrell
'An instant classic'- Emma Donoghue
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