Сара Мосс — новинки

Умная и прилежная Алли Моберли растет среди декадентских картин отца и пребывает в усердной, но тщетной борьбе за одобрение своей матери. Ее мать Элизабет маниакально религиозна, она готова накормить бездомных и протянуть руку спасения падшим, но не способна полюбить своих собственных детей. Юношество Алли скованно дисциплиной, бесконечным списком правил и постоянным чувством неполноценности. Когда горькая трагедия разделяет их семью, девушка вынуждена покинуть родной дом в Манчестере и начать новую жизнь в Лондоне, где она решительно стремится примкнуть к первому поколению женщин-врачей.
"Фигуры света" Сары Мосс – пронзительный роман о воспитании, зарождении феминизма и женском стремлении к самостоятельности в эпоху прерафаэлитов и суфражисток.
The Guardian о книге: «Фигуры света» – важная веха в творчестве очень хорошей писательницы Сары Мосс. Ее серьезная сдержанная интонация – украшение палитры современной литературы. Исторические детали выписаны ярко, даже чувственно».

Тончайшая и пронзительная история взросления в особенной атмосфере прерафаэлитизма. Алли умна, прилежна и ведет нескончаемую — и неизменно безуспешную — битву за одобрение и привязанность своей матери. Ее мать Элизабет одержима миссией — накормить страждущих и спасти падших, и воспитание дочерей для нее — это соблюдение правил, дисциплина и аскеза во всем. Даже когда Алли получает стипендию и становится одной из первых женщин, изучающих медицину, мать остается равнодушна к успеху дочери. Роман Сары Мосс – о попытках женщины вырваться из цепей запретов и установок. Это не столько история о зарождении феминизма, сколько погружение в мир…

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period, but she just can't take it any more - 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.
But Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain rescue operation…
Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive, and it will move you to tears.

„Niesamowita opowieść… Jednocześnie niepokoi i porusza”. „The Times”
Ojciec Silvie jest kierowcą autobusu, ale jego prawdziwa pasja to historia Wielkiej Brytanii. W trakcie letniego urlopu zabiera żonę i nastoletnią Silvie na obóz antropologiczny, którego uczestnicy odtwarzają życie w epoce żelaza wraz ze wszystkimi niedogodnościami. Obóz ma charakter naukowy, jednak zaciętość i bezkompromisowy charakter ojca Silvie sprawiają, że przeradza się on w spektakl dominacji mężczyzny nad rodziną. Pasja staje się obsesją, która prowadzi do ślepej wiary w konieczność praktykowania dawnych rytuałów, nawet za cenę ludzkiego życia.
Sarah Moss powraca do tematu rodzicielstwa, odkrywając jego mroczną stronę oraz wciąż niesłabnącą siłę patriarchatu. Bezradność ofiar miesza się z ich niewypowiedzianym pragnieniem buntu. A pytanie o sprawiedliwość rozbrzmiewa na równi z uznaniem dla literackiego talentu Moss.
Ta wyprawa do prehistorii pokazuje, jak bardzo wiedza zapisana jest w naszych ciałach. Oraz władza. Władza ojca i ciało córki to główni bohaterowie tej opowieści o archeologicznym surwiwalu.
Kinga Dunin
To opowieść o murach, jakie budujemy wokół siebie, bojąc się wszelkiej inności. Sarah Moss posiada umiejętność opowiadania o wielkich sprawach przez pryzmat pozornie zwykłych zdarzeń, zwyczajnych ludzi i codziennych problemów.
Anna Dziewit-Meller

Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment . . . it throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands, and a searing exploration of our capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these divided times.

On the longest day of the summer, twelve people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents. A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a retired couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark waters of the loch in his red kayak. Each person is wrapped in their own cares but increasingly alert to the makeshift community around them. One particular family, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners, starts to draw the attention of the others. Tensions rise and all watch on,…

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior

The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.

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 rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs―particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, 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?

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.

Teenage Silvie is living in a remote Northumberland camp as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is an abusive man, obsessed with recreating the discomfort, brutality and harshness of Iron Age life. Behind and ahead of Silvie's narrative is the story of a bog girl, a sacrifice, a woman killed by those closest to her, and as the hot summer builds to a terrifying climax, Silvie and the Bog girl are in ever more terrifying proximity.

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination.

An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss's many fans.

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing.

The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed. In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful.

The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence.

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal - and losing - battle to gain her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship and is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn't seem good enough. The first in a two-book sequence, Bodies of Light will propel Sarah Moss into the upper echelons of British novelists. It is a triumphant piece of historical fiction and a profoundly moving master class in characterisation.

Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who speaks to elves and a chef who guided Sarah's family around the intricacies of Icelandic…

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular…