Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss

Granta €14.99 Sylvie is a 17-year-old from Burnley whose father is obsessed by the Ancient Britons. One hot summer he takes his wife and daughter to re-enact the huntergatherer lifestyle in Northumbria, camping out with a professor from the south and his middle-class students. As tensions mount, it becomes clear that the experiment is going to end in violence – but what form will it take, and who will the victim be? Moss’s finely balanced novel combines a strong sense of the natural world with a growing atmosphere of menace, interspersed with wry humour.