Night Waking

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Anna hasn't slept in months. Stranded on a Hebridean island with two smallchildren, she struggles to write or think without a room of her own. When herson finds a baby's skeleton buried in the garden, Anna must confront the island'stroubled past, while finding a way to live with the complex demands ofmotherhood.

'Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals' - Kate Saunders, The Times

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'Tartly humorous, sad and clever ... a passionately written meditation onmotherhood, with all the monotony, desperation and visceral feelings faithfullyrecorded' - Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

'Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash betweencareer and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals' - Kate Saunders,The Times

Author Bio

SARAH MOSS is the author of eight novels, including Ghost Wall and The Tidal Zone. Her account of her time in Iceland, Names for the Sea, was shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize and she has three times been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.