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'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

About the Author

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.

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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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