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On the longest day of the summer, 12 people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents.
A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a retired couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark waters of the loch in his red kayak.
Each person is wrapped in their own cares but increasingly alert to the makeshift community around them. One particular family, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners, starts to draw the attention of the others. Tensions rise and all watch on, unaware of the tragedy that lies ahead as night finally falls.
On the longest day of the summer, 12 people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents.
A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a retired couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark waters of the loch in his red kayak.
Each person is wrapped in their own cares but increasingly alert to the makeshift community around them. One particular family, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners, starts to draw the attention of the others. Tensions rise and all watch on, unaware of the tragedy that lies ahead as night finally falls.
From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater is a devastating story told over 24 hours in the Scottish highlands and a searing exploration of our capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these divided times.
Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013. Morven Christie was born and raised in Scotland, and trained as an actor at Drama Centre London. Since graduating she has worked extensively across film, television, theatre and radio. Morven starred in the BBC's The A Word (2016–2020) as Alison Hughes and ITV's The Bay (2019–2020) as D.S. Lisa Armstrong. As a narrator, she has lent her voice to bestselling titles including Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.
'Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment ...
it throws much contemporary writing into the shade
*Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies*
‘Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch. Deft and
brimming with life, Summerwater is a novel of endless depth. A
masterpiece.’
*Jessie Burton*
'Moss’s star is firmly in the ascendant.'
*Guardian*
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