Fell

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, comes a story about the circumstances and the consequences of isolation. `A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting` - Emma Donoghue `Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist`s can be` - The Times At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of two weeks of isolation, but she just can`t take it any more - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know. But Kate`s neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate`s son, soon realizes she`s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain-rescue operation . . . Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive. `Gripping, thoughtful and revelatory` - Paula Hawkins `This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year` - Rachel Joyce `One of our very best contemporary novelists` - Independent