Summerwater
a tense, psychological family thriller, from the Sunday Times bestseller
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, now a major TV series.
From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss, Summerwater is a simmering story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish Highlands.
'Superb' - The Times
'Sharp, searching . . . utterly of the moment' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
'Beautifully written, intense, powerful' - David Nicholls, author of One Day
It is the summer solstice, but in a faded Scottish cabin park the rain is unrelenting. Twelve families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey.
But there is one particular family, a mother and daughter, with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners. They start to draw the attention of the others. Who are they? Where are they from?
Tensions are rising, something is unravelling, and as darkness finally falls, a match is lit . . .
'A masterpiece' - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
'One of her best' - Irish Times
'So accomplished' - The Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Moss's taut latest (after Ghost Wall) turns a rain-drenched park in the Scottish Highlands into a site of tension and unease for a group of vacationing strangers. The book opens with a middle-aged woman going for a run in the early morning, her family still asleep in their rented cabin. As she follows the trail past an illegally pitched tent, she considers the trope of a dangerous man in the woods. From here on out, each chapter introduces a new point of view among the mix of English tourists and Scots who watch and pass judgment upon one another without interacting, and situations such as a teenage boy's ill-advised kayak trip across a rough loch and a teenage girl's sneaking out at night keep the reader wondering if this is the kind of book where the worst thing will happen. As the noises of late-night revelry from one cabin draw attention from all others, many of whom describe its dwellers wrongly as "foreign" or "those Romanians," the suspense builds. Meanwhile, a series of lyrical interludes describing the park's elements of nature and eons of evolution provide delightfully ironic contrasts to the small human dramas. Readers unafraid of a bit of rain will relish this.
