Ghost Wall

INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: a powerful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes, rites of the past and a teenage girl in danger

Further proof that Moss is one of our very best contemporary novelists.... Ghost Wall is an intoxicating concoction; inventive, intelligent, and like no other author's work

I love this book. Ghost Wall requires you to put your life on hold while you finish it. It draws you into its unusual world and, with quiet power and menace, keeps you there until the very last page. Silvie's story isn't one you will ever forget

A burnished gem... brilliant

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

Stunningly good

Breathtaking

Exquisite...will send shivers down your spine

An instant classic

An amazing story ... disturbing and touching at the same time

A taut tale alive with intelligence and sensuousness

Moss's star is firmly in the ascendant

This divided country's most urgent novelist

Compelling

A worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evokes existential dread, but contains it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle

I'm a great fan of Sarah Moss's work; she combines poetic sensibility with great storytelling... Moss is brilliant on atmosphere

Ghost Wall grabs you by the guts and never lets go. Dazzling

Eerie and gripping

Stunningly good... Over a staggeringly short distance Moss creates and manipulates an atmosphere of extreme tension... As the story edges towards its climax, Moss appears to collapse layers of history, to render skin and knife and rope identical across millennia

As brief and unsettling as a bolt of lightning

A coming-of-age story with rare power and startling depth

A literary star continues to rise... taut, suspenseful

The exhilarating originality of Moss's sixth novel makes it impossible to resist... underpinned by a fierce sense of place and precise, poetic prose

Compact and vivid

Brilliant

Unputdownable

Finely balanced . . . combines a strong sense of the natural world with a growing menace

Slim and spooky . . . well worth your time

This slight novel contains so much more than works many times its length...a second reading is essential

This is a book you'll want to read again and again . . . Harrowing!

Ghost Wall deserves way more accolades than it's getting

A brilliant exercise in dark suspense that leaves you shuddering at the possibilities...haunting

[A] short, emotionally intense novel, exploring abuse, history and the redemptive power of nature

A brilliant exercise in dark suspense that leaves you shuddering at the possibilities... haunting

An unnerving indictment of misogyny... pitch-perfect

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss makes me sad for England, now that Brexit is near...it is true to some idea of England - of landscape, tradition and deep history - which is being clawed back, by these writers, from English nationalism

I loved it

Gosh it's so good, and Moss is the most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes

Breath-taking

SARAH MOSS is the author of eight novels, including Ghost Wall and The Tidal Zone. Her account of her time in Iceland, Names for the Sea, was shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize and she has three times been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.