![]() ![]() Ghost Wall’s protagonists are a mixed group of amateurs and professionals spending the summer after the fall of the Berlin Wall at an archaeology camp on the site of an Iron Age settlement in Northumberland. In Cold Earth, an archaeological dig in Greenland turns apocalyptic. Compact in form, both combine the components of a thriller with a nuanced understanding of history, its fluctuating interpretations and its often traumatic effect on the present. Moss’s sixth novel, Ghost Wall, while continuing this element of time-sifting, has more in common with her debut Cold Earth. ![]() ![]() Moss’s novels include Night Waking, in which a remote Scottish island is the eerie setting for exploration of past infant mortality Bodies of Light, with Victorian Manchester home to a William Morris-style coterie of artists and social reformers and, most recently, the history of the post-war reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral as the backdrop to modern-day parental anxiety in The Tidal Zone. ![]() Over the course of five books, Moss has used this analogy to establish herself as one of our foremost literary forensic anthropologists, excavating that which has long been covered over or covered up before offering it, newly realised, to the light of day. “I can’t tell you where historical truth ends and historical fiction begins,” the novelist Sarah Moss has said. ![]()
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