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Sarah Moss

May 2026

  • Book jackets

    This month's best paperbacks
    The best books to read in May: new paperbacks from Ocean Vuong, RF Kuang and Nick Clegg

    Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some must-read paperbacks, from a campus novel to a history of language

December 2025

  • Composite of an illustration of a Christmas elf sledding on a book, plus photos of authors Ali Smith, Adam Kay and Ferdia Lennon, on a green background

    Christmas puzzles special 2025
    The books quiz of 2025 – set by Mick Herron, Bernardine Evaristo, Ali Smith and more

  • picture of wrapped books

    ‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

November 2025

  • Valene Kane, who plays Justine, stands by a loch

    TV review
    Summerwater review – back out of the room slowly and carefully … this bleak drama is a mess

    This six-part adaptation of Sarah Moss’s novel is deeply confused. The acting is melodramatic, the tone bewildering and the plot is full of cartoonishly grim situations that go nowhere

October 2025

  • Night Waking at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.

    Night Waking review – sleepy take on Sarah Moss’s novel about parenthood

    The 2011 book about a mother’s struggle to pursue a career while looking after her children becomes a very routine drama

September 2024

  • Author Sarah Moss sits on a chair in front of a wall of books on shelves.

    My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder

    Two internal monologues vie for attention in The Fell author’s revelatory account of her struggles with anorexia and its roots in her childhood

August 2024

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    My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss review – trauma response

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    Novelist Sarah Moss: ‘Hunger numbed my shame and humiliation’

January 2022

  • Sarah Moss in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was crippled by negative thoughts – then I bought a silver bracelet

    My self-esteem was at rock bottom, but on a break from my academic job I found myself in Paris. As I wandered through the city, an impulse buy gave me hope I could value myself again

December 2021

  • the Peak District, where The Fell is set.

    Book of the day
    The Fell by Sarah Moss review – a perspective on the pandemic

    During the lockdown of winter 2020, a woman breaks her quarantine to head out to the hills – then disaster strikes

November 2021

  • Windows on the worlds … Ruth Medjber’s night-time portraits were taken across Ireland during lockdown.

    Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them?

  • Sarah Moss shot in Ireland, Sept 2021 by George Voronov

    The Fell by Sarah Moss review – the hills are alive with pandemic anxieties

October 2021

  • Sarah Moss shot in Ireland, Sept 2021 by George Voronov

    Sarah Moss: ‘The rhetoric during lockdown was terrifying’

    The British author on isolation, community and writing a novel set during the coronavirus pandemic

June 2021

  • Review magazine cover 26th June 2021

    Stories to save the world: the new wave of climate fiction

    Now more than ever, novelists are facing up to the unthinkable: the climate crisis. Claire Armitstead talks to Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh and more about the new cli-fi

August 2020

  • An angler casts his line while fishing from a small boat near a tree erected in the middle of Loch Raven Reservoir, Monday, June 29, 2020, in Glen Arm, Md. Temperature is expected to reach into the low 90s on Monday and will continue to rise heading into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

    Summerwater by Sarah Moss review – a dark holiday in Scotland

  • Sarah Moss in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin

    Sarah Moss: ‘Writing about the natural world is not an optional extra'

September 2018

  • Sunset at Sycamore gap, Northumberland, England<br>Sunset at Sycamore gap, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, England

    Book of the day
    Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss review – back to the iron age

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    Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss review – a horrible history lesson

March 2017

  • Wellcome book prize judges 2017, Di Speirs, Simon Baron-Cohen, Val McDermid, Tim Lewens and Gemma Cairney.

    Wellcome prize shortlist announced: books that 'will change lives'

    Six books are in contention for the annual award for excellence in science and health writing, including a trainee neurosurgeon’s posthumous memoir and books about the NHS, HIV/Aids and organ donorship

July 2016

  • Reconciliation by Josefina de Vasconcellos in the ruins of Coventry cathedral.

    The Tidal Zone review – a search for stories in times of turmoil

    Sarah Moss, author of Signs for Lost Children, balances a family swept into confusion with a city’s fraught history
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