The Fell: A Novel [Paperback]

A slim, tense page-turner . . . I gulpedThe Felldown in one sitting. Emma Donoghue, author ofThe Pull of the Stars

From the award-winning author ofGhost WallandSummerwater, Sarah MosssThe Fellis a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the ever-nearness of disaster.

At dusk on a November evening, a woman slips through her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine period, a true lockdown, but she cant take it anymorethe closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know shes stepped out.

Kate planned only a quick walka stretch of the legs, a breath of fresh airon paths she knows too well. But somehow she falls. Injured, unable to move, she sees that her short, furtive stroll will become a mountain rescue operation, maybe even a missing person case.

Sarah MosssThe Fellis a story of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and compassion. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it asks probing questions about how close so many live to the edge and about who we are in the world, who we are to our neighbors, and who we become when the world demands we shut ourselves away.

Sarah Mossis the author ofSummerwater, a best book of the year inThe GuardianandThe Times(London), andGhost Wall, aNew York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice and a best book of the year inElle, theFinancial Times, and other publications. Her previous books include the novelsCold Earth,Night Waking,Bodies of Light, andSigns for Lost Children, and the memoirNames for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland. She was educated at the University of Oxford and now teaches at University College Dublin.

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