Ripeness

It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby''s fate, and his mother''s. Decades later, happily divorced and newly energized, Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help. Ripeness by Sarah Moss is an extraordinary novel about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Moss, Moss Sarah
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781529035490
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3549-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Northern Italy, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance, Theater & Musicals