by Sarah Moss · Granta Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781783784455
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«Ghost Wall» is the horror and literary fiction novel by Sarah Moss, published by Granta Books in hardback (152 pages, in English).
Silvie, an English teenager, spends two weeks with her family at an experimental archaeology camp recreating Iron Age life in Northumberland. Her father, obsessed with the harshness of that era, imposes iron discipline. Among the course students, Silvie begins to glimpse a different life. The tense, unsettling narrative is threaded through with the story of a young woman sacrificed in a bog and culminates when the group raises a ghost wall and the violence of the past threatens to repeat itself.
Novel originally published on 20 September 2018. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and short stories with an unsettling atmosphere.
Sarah Moss FRSL is an English writer and academic. She has published eight novels and two memoirs, as well as a number of non-fiction works and academic texts. A ninth novel, Ripeness, was published in 2025. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize. She was appointed assistant professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland with effect from September 2020. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times.
