![]() ![]() Cut to almost modern day, sometime not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and teenage Sylvie and her parents have joined a university project conducting an experiment in living archaeology in the Northumbrian countryside. Ghost Wall opens in prehistoric times, with the death of an Iron Age woman at the hands of her tribe. Along the way, Moss deeply questions the Brexit movement and gender power dynamics. The book is a coming-of-age tale that explores the power of the past to inform and drive action. Ghost Wall, the sixth book by British author Sarah Moss, is as short and sharp as a flint knife. Ghost Wall is a multilayered novel, both a violent coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale for those looking to the past for a steer on the future. ![]()
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