Sarah Moss

Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done. On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside windows twinkling with fairy lights, they share a meal, pour wine, propose a toast. Janice and Gerry are strangers to one another, but they each have a story to tell, a confession to make. As the blizzard howls, the night will take an unexpected turn, and their conversation will have consequences far beyond the candlelit table.

'The achievement of a lifetime' - Jessie Burton, author of The House of Fortune 'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of Birnam Wood 'A powerful and beautifully written story of family, friendship and identity' - Guardian Just out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent alone to rural Italy. Her task is simple: support her sister Lydia, a brilliant but brittle ballet dancer, through the final weeks of her pregnancy. Once the baby is born, she is to make a phone call that will change all of their lives forever. Decades later, Edith is living a contented life in Ireland, happily divorced and unexpectedly free. But when her friend Méabh receives an email from a stranger claiming to be her brother, everything shifts. As Méabh confronts a history she never knew she had, Edith must finally face the truth of that long-ago summer, and the secret she has carried for a lifetime. ‘Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence’ - Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express ‘One of our greatest living writers’ - Katherine May, author of Wintering Praise for Sarah Moss: ‘Throws much contemporary writing into the shade’ Hilary Mantel ‘One of our very best contemporary novelists’ The Independent ‘A brilliant mind’ The Guardian ‘Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years’ Financial Times ‘One of the finest contemporary writers working in Britain today’ Stylist ‘Is Sarah Moss the best British writer never nominated for the Booker?’ The Daily Mail ‘Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch’ Jessie Burton ‘The most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes’ Joanna Trollope

"Heartbreaking . . . Beautiful." --Amanda Seyfried, The New Yorker Long-listed for the National Book Critics Award for AutobiographyA Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, and the New York Public LibraryA Must-Read: New York, Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, Shelf AwarenessFrom the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell, Sarah Moss's My Good Bright Wolf is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves. A girl must watch her figure but never be vain. She must be intelligent but never a know-it-all. She must be ambitious, if she is clever, but not in a way that shows. She must cook and sew and make do and mend. She must know (but never say) that these skills are, in some fundamental way, flawed and frivolous--feminine. Girls must stay small, even as they grow. Women must show restraint. And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free. Here, with My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss takes on these rules, these lessons from the fables of girlhood, and uses them to fearlessly investigate the nature of memory, the lure of self-control, the impact of privilege, scarcity, parents, love. Through narratives of women and food, second-wave feminism and postwar puritanism, and her own challenges with a health care system that discounts the experiences of those it ought to serve, Moss seeks truth in the stories we tell ourselves and others. Harm can become power. Attention can become care. A body and a mind, though working hard together, can be at odds. And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free. Beautiful and sharp, moving and unapologetic, erudite and very funny, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir that breaks the rules.

A story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers. Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new energy, Edith has made a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. Then her best friend Maebh receives a shocking phone call from an American man. He claims to be a brother she never knew existed: a child her mother gave up and never spoke of again. As Edith helps her friend reckon with this new idea of family and how it might change her life, her thoughts turn back to Lydia and her own fractured history. What did they give up when they sent him away? What kind of life has he been given? And how did it change their own lives? In Ripeness, Sarah Moss has again tapped into the questions that haunt us individually and as communities. Ripeness is an extraordinary novel about familial love and the bonds we forge across time, migration and new beginnings, and what it is to have somewhere to belong.

&b>From the bestselling author of &i>Summerwater&/i> comes a story of love, loss and belonging that moves between 1960s Italy and modern day Ireland.&/b>

From 1960s Italy to present-day Ireland, Ripeness is a haunting, luminous tale of love, grief, and the lifelong search for where we truly belong, from Sarah Moss, bestselling author of Summerwater.'Moss makes every moment count' - The Sunday Times'The achievement of a lifetime' - Jessie Burton'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton'A powerful and beautifully written story of family, friendship and identity' - GuardianJust out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent alone to rural Italy. Her task is simple: support her sister Lydia, a brilliant but brittle ballet dancer, through the final weeks of her pregnancy. Once the child is born, she is to make a phone call that will change all of their lives forever.Decades later, Edith is living a contented life in Ireland, happily divorced and unexpectedly free. But when her friend Méabh receives a call from a stranger claiming to be her brother, everything shifts. As Méabh confronts a history she never knew she had, Edith is pulled back into the long-buried story of the baby she once held, and lost.'Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence' - Emma Donoghue'One of our greatest living writers' - Katherine May, author of WinteringPraise for Sarah Moss:'Throws much contemporary writing into the shade' - Hilary Mantel‘One of our very best contemporary novelists’ - Independent'A brilliant mind' - The Guardian'Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years' - Financial Times'One of the finest contemporary writers working in Britain today' - Stylist'Is Sarah Moss the best British writer never nominated for the Booker?' - Daily Mail'Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch' - Jessie Burton'The most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes' - Joanna Trollope

A 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 Telegraph‘Devastating, funny . . . a brave and important book’ - Melissa Harrison'Full of daring . . . revelatory' - The Observer'An observational masterpiece' - The iIn the household of Sarah Moss's 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 Sarah’s 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 Pine‘Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be’ - Jan Carson'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be' - The Times

Rozumna j napolegliva Aleteja - Elli, jak nizhno kliche jiji batko - vtjagnuta v odvichno prograshnu borotbu za skhvalennja ta prikhilnist vlasnoji materi - suvoroji religijnoji fanatichki, jaku khviljujut lishe golod bidnikh i porjatunok povij. Navit koli Elli staje odnijeju z pershikh zhinok-studentok, jakim dozvoleno vivchati meditsinu v Londoni, materi tsogo nedostatno. Aleteja tak silno potrebuje spokoju u sviti, de ljubov ta skhvalennja znischeni matir'ju, scho peretvorjuje vlasne zhittja na bil. I jedinij sposib vtamuvati jogo - nischiti vlasne tilo.PerekladachIrina Gojal

From the legends of King Arthur embedded in the rocky splendour of Tintagel to the folklore and mysticism of Stonehenge, English Heritage sites are often closely linked to native English myths. Following on from the bestselling ghost story anthology Eight Ghosts, this new collection of stories inspired by the legends and tales that swirl through the history of eight ancient historical sites. Including an essay by James Kidd on the importance of myth to our landscape and our fiction, and an English Heritage survey of sites and associated legends, These Our Monsters is an evocative collection that brings new voices and fresh creative alchemy to our story-telling heritage. Author and atmospheric locations include: Edward Carey - Bury St Edmunds AbbeySarah Hall - Castlerigg and other stone circlesPaul Kingsnorth - StonehengeAlison MacLeod - Down HouseGraeme Macrae Burnet - Whitby AbbeySarah Moss - Berwick CastleFiona Mozley - Carlisle CastleAdam Thorpe - Tintagel Castle With original black-and-white illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

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.

'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape' - The Daily Telegraph‘Devastating, funny . . . a brave and important book’ - Melissa Harrison'Full of daring . . . revelatory' - The Observer'An observational masterpiece' - The iA memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.In the household of Sarah Moss's 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, she must be able to cook and sew and make do and mend, but know those skills were frivolous. 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 Sarah’s 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.'Without a doubt, one of our greatest living writers' - Katherine May'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine‘Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be’ - Jan Carson'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be' - The Times

'I love this book. Put your life on hold while you finish it' Maggie O'Farrell A suspenseful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes and a teenage girl in danger. Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who are attempting to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses the possibility of freedom with the students - new female friendships and a sexual awakening - her difficult relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate. As the feelings of dread build the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present... '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 'An instant classic' Emma Donoghue 'I loved it' Bernadine Evaristo

"A slim, tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting." --Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the Stars From the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater, Sarah Moss's The Fell is a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the ever-nearness of disaster. At dusk on a November evening, a woman slips through her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine period, a true lockdown, but she can't take it anymore--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 she's stepped out. Kate planned only a quick walk--a stretch of the legs, a breath of fresh air--on paths she knows too well. But somehow she falls. Injured, unable to move, she sees that her short, furtive stroll will become a mountain rescue operation, maybe even a missing person case. Sarah Moss's The Fell is a story of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and compassion. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it asks probing questions about how close so many live to the edge and about who we are in the world, who we are to our neighbors, and who we become when the world demands we shut ourselves away.

Tonchajshaja i pronzitelnaja istorija vzroslenija v osobennoj atmosfere prerafaelitizma. Alli umna, prilezhna i vedet neskonchaemuju - i neizmenno bezuspeshnuju - bitvu za odobrenie i privjazannost svoej materi. Ee mat Elizabet oderzhima missiej - nakormit strazhduschikh i spasti padshikh, i vospitanie docherej dlja nee - eto sobljudenie pravil, distsiplina i askeza vo vsem. Dazhe kogda Alli poluchaet stipendiju i stanovitsja odnoj iz pervykh zhenschin, izuchajuschikh meditsinu, mat ostaetsja ravnodushna k uspekhu docheri. No roman Sary Moss o popytkakh zhenschiny vyrvatsja iz tsepej zapretov i ustanovok - eto ne stolko istorija o zarozhdenii feminizma, skolko pogruzhenie v mir semi, gde ljubov zaprjatana slishkom gluboko. Pjat prichin kupit 1 Mozhno vdovol naljubovatsja polotnami prerafaelitov, kotorye ne najti ni v odnom muzee, no kotorye vypisany nastolko jarko, chto vstajut pered glazami. 2 Masterskij perevod Anastasii Zavozovoj. 3 Glubokoe pogruzhenie v viktorianskuju epokhu s ee traditsijami i odnovremenno v udivitelnyj mir khudozhnikov-prerafaelitov. 4 Istorija neprostogo vzroslenija devochki na fone nachinajuschikhsja sotsialnykh peremen. 5 Uvlekatelnyj i ochen tochnyj, s jarkimi detaljami rasskaz o tom, kak pojavilis pervye zhenschiny-vrachi.Perevodchik: Zavozova Anastasija

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, comes a tense and revelatory page-turner about the consequences of isolation during lockdown.'I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' – Emma Donoghue'Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist's can be' – The TimesAt dusk on a November evening in 2020, Kate slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. In the middle of two weeks of Covid quarantine, she just can't take the confinement any more. The moor will be deserted at this time, and nobody need ever know.But Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain rescue operation as Kate, who planned only a quick breath of open air, falls and badly injures herself.Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the world since the first Covid lockdown, and the place it was before. This intense masterpiece is a story about compassion, kindness and the lengths we must go to survive.'Gripping, thoughtful and revelatory' – Paula Hawkins'An intense masterpiece and one of my best books of the year' – Rachel Joyce'One of our very best contemporary novelists' – Independent

»Sarah Moss har en fantastisk förmåga att med små medel skapa en smygande känsla av obehag. Trots sin enkla handling är denna lilla roman en nagelbitare där man redan från början anar att det lurar något riktigt otrevligt mitt i den vardagliga tristessen. En mycket stark läsupplevelse.« BTJ-häftet Det är sommarens längsta dag, men regnet faller tungt över den lilla stugbyn i det skotska höglandet. Semesterfirare från olika delar av landet, i olika åldrar och konstellationer, försöker på olika sätt att överkomma tristessen som regnet bär med sig: en utflykt med bil, en löptur, sex och städning. En familj tycks dock vara annorlunda och börjar snart att gå de andra på nerverna. Vilka är de egentligen, varifrån kommer de? I takt med att sommarregnet och dagen fortlöper ökar spänningarna, och med mörkret kommer till slut en oåterkallelig vändning.Sarah Moss, född 1975, är en stigande stjärna på den brittiska författarhimlen. Hon har nominerats till ett flertal priser, bland annat Women's Prize for Fiction, Wellcome Book Prize och Ondaatje Prize. Sommarregn var med på listan över årets bästa böcker 2020 hos såväl The Guardian som The Times.Atlas har tidigare gett ut den hyllade Offermur (2021). Sommarregn är den andra romanen av Sarah Moss som ges ut på svenska.Översättning: Rose-Marie Nielsen