Bøger af Sarah Moss

The devastating new novel from Sarah Moss, author of Womens Prize longlisted&i> Ghost Wall.&/i>

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark[s] on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, a doctor, takes work at the Truro asylum where she must struggle against the terrible conditions imposed on the patients, the mores of late Victorian society and her own demons.

Originally published: London: Granta Books, 2012.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, The Fell is a novel for our times - the story of a woman in quarantine who can't take it any more and goes hill-walking at dusk . . .

'Night Waking is a brilliantly observed comedy of 21st-century manners. It's also a tightly plotted mystery that keeps the reader wondering, and hoping, until the final page' - Louise Welch

A darkly atmospheric, intelligent first novel about a team of young archaeologists in Greenland, unearthing the remains of an extinct Norse community while a plague rages in the outside world ...

From the acclaimed author of Night Waking comes this beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family

Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women's consumption and production are manifest in novelists' and novels' accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.

"Hun havde det fint. Det var det første, jeg så. Hun lå fladt på ryggen i ambulancens hule under et af de der vaffelmønstrede tæpper, og hun havde mudder i ansigtet, og der stak slanger ud fra under tæppet, og en bippende skærm, der lignede en gammel computermodel, stod parkeret mellem hendes fødder som en lille hund, og hun var meget bleg, og hendes ansigt var underligt hævet under en iltmaske, men hun havde det fint."En helt almindelig formiddag bliver Adam kontaktet af sin 15-årige datters skole. Der er sket et uheld. Miriam faldt om og stoppede med at trække været grundet en allergisk reaktion – selvom hun ikke ellers er allergisk. Nu tager familien hul på en ny virkelighed, hvor ens børn kan falde om når som helst, og hvor de skal forsøge at udholde en hverdag, der ligger som en tynd skal over den lurende katastrofe.Sarah Moss blev uddannet på Oxford universitet og underviser i øjeblikket i creative writing på Warwick universitet. Hun har udgivet seks romaner, og hendes værker er tre gange blevet nomineret til Wellcome Book Prize.I Tidevandszonen er Sarah Moss’ første udgivelse på dansk.

Novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children, in the wake of the financial crisis and in the year the volcano erupted

Redolent of everything sensual and hedonistic, chocolate is synonymous with our idea of indulgence. It is adored around the world and has been since the Spanish first encountered cocoa beans in South America in the sixteenth century. This title explores the origins and growth of this almost universal obsession.