5/10/2023 0 Comments The ghost wall sarah moss![]() ![]() Like her previous short novel, 2018’s Ghost Wall, Summerwater was written as a “distraction” from a bigger project. ![]() ![]() Their accounts of the day are interleaved with fleeting dispatches from a natural world under pressure from abnormal rainfall: owls unable to feed, ants barricading themselves into their castle, the loch itself, sedimented with the detritus of centuries of drowned children. A little over 200 pages long, Summerwater is a gem of compressed storytelling, narrated by 12 holidaymakers over the course of a single day. ![]() Soon, we’re off into the morning ritual of a retired GP, who is making the first pot of tea of the day when he spies the “lass” in the Lycra, “wearing out her joints, pounding down that hill in her underwear”. In the main, we just got on with it because that’s the kind of upbringing I had and the kind of upbringing my kids get.”īut there the autobiographical element ends. But it rained and rained and I was very interested in how different households responded to it. It was a group of people gathered together when all we had in common was that we were all on holiday in this place we’d chosen because it was remote and beautiful. “I’d been rather fascinated by the life going on in all these different cabins. “That bit is pretty straightforwardly autobiographical,” she says. Moss herself is a runner and the mother of two boys, who recently spent a break in a holiday park on the shores of a Scottish loch. ![]()
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