Bodies of Light

A beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family, from the author of Ghost Wall.

About the author

Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013. Her novel The Tidal Zone will be published by Granta in summer 2016.

Summary

A beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family, from the author of Ghost Wall.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Moss, Moss Sarah
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781783787678
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-767-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary