Moss, Sarah
Night Waking
- ISBN 13:
- 9781783787685
- author:
- Moss, Sarah
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Granta Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, General, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write, but her life is complicated by an insomniac toddler and a husband who's often absent. To escape the chaos, they've moved to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, where her husband can count puffins.
Anna's days are filled with the struggle to balance motherhood and work, but her world is turned upside down when she discovers a baby's skeleton in their garden. As she tries to make sense of this discovery, Anna writes letters home from 200 years ago, which were written by May, a young midwife trying to introduce modern medicine to the islanders.
This deeply moving story explores themes of maternal ambivalence, the challenges of controlling children, and the complex relationship between work and motherhood. With its dark humor and emotional depth, Night Waking is a powerful novel that showcases Sarah Moss's range as both a comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.
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