'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 - Elizabeth Buchan, "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 -
G"uardian"
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 - D"aily 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""
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