The Fell

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, comes a story about the circumstances and the consequences of isolation. âEUR-A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sittingâEUR(TM) - Emma Donoghue âEUR-Her work is as close to perfect as a novelistâEUR(TM)s can beâEUR(TM) - The Times 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 two weeks of Covid isolation, but she just canâEUR(TM)t take it any more âEUR" 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 KateâEUR(TM)s neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, KateâEUR(TM)s son, soon realizes sheâEUR(TM)s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk âEUR" a breath of open air âEUR" 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 the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive. âEUR-Gripping, thoughtful and revelatoryâEUR(TM) - Paula Hawkins âEUR-This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the yearâEUR(TM) - Rachel Joyce âEUR-One of our very best contemporary novelistsâEUR(TM) - Independent

Sarah Moss is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland. She has published six novels as well as a number of non-fiction works. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize., Sarah Moss is the author of several novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels are Summerwater, Cold Earth, Night Waking, Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and Ghost Wall, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019. Sarah was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik and West Cornwall, she now lives in the Midlands and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.