'Night Waking is a brilliantly observed comedy of 21st-century manners. It's also a tightly plotted mystery that keeps the reader wondering, and hoping, until the final page' - Louise Welch
Sarah Moss is senior lecturer in Literature and Place at the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus. She spent 2009-10 teaching creative writing and Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Iceland, and has a BA, MSt and DPhil from Oxford University. Her first novel Cold Earth was published by Granta in 2010. Night Waking is her second novel.
Tartly humorous, sad and clever ... a passionately written
meditation on motherhood, with all the monotony, desperation and
visceral feelings faithfully recorded
*Sunday Times*
Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash
between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for
intellectuals
*The Times*
Fresh and illuminating... [Sarah] Moss is a wry, winning guide
*Guardian*
Highly enjoyable... The upbeat conclusion to this blend of
middle-class satire, historical fiction and campus novel does not
soften Moss's withering take on sexism and her stark view of
motherhood
*Daily Telegraph*
An original and accomplished novel
*Daily Mail*
Sarah Moss's debut, Cold Earth, was a stylish thriller set on a
remote archaeological dig in Greenland. Here she takes the
emotional isolation of early parenthood as her subject,
intensifying the experience by transplanting a young family to a
remote Scottish island ... In her previous book, a character noted
that there was "some peace in having a kind of room of my own, even
if it is a grave." This latest work explores the concept further
with some startling results'
*Independent*
Sarah Moss weaves in perceptions about motherhood, attitudes to
children and attempts to improve the world... she demonstrates that
she can handle a darkly comic narrative with the best of them -
although Night Waking is much more than that
*Metro*
Witty with dark humour ... Moss manages to wave the threads
together quite expertly at the end
*Herald*
The prose is flawless and elegant... [A] well-crafted, and
intelligent read, and enlightening at times. It inspired me to find
out more about the horrendous Highland Clearances
*Matthew James Hunt blog*
There are many layers to this book - political, feminist,
artistic... beautifully written
*Magnet Magazine*
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