Ghost Wall Sarah Moss by Sarah Moss 9781783787852, 1783787856 instant download after payment.

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behaviour The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. 

"A master class in compressing an unbearable sense of dread into a book that can be read in a single horrified (and admiring) hour..."  -  Sarah Perry, The Wall Street Journal

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.

For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbits. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, travelling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, and speaking her mind.

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, and rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?

"Stylish, cerebral... fiction of unusual philosophical and emotional density... [Moss] is one of the most versatile and talented writers working today... Ghost Wall [is] a riveting gut punch of a novel... It has the quality of parable, yet never loses sight of the fragile but fierce young girl at its centre. It is an extraordinary novel."  -  Tara K. Menon, Los Angeles Review of Books

A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.