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A stunning new novel of coming-of-age and growing old, from Sunday Times bestseller Sarah Moss ''Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist''s can be'' The Times ''Throws much contemporary writing into the shade'' Hilary Mantel 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. Praise for Sarah Moss: ''One of our very best contemporary novelists'' Independent ''A brilliant mind'' The Guardian ''Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years'' Financial Times ''One of the finest contemporary writers working in Britain today'' Stylist ''Is Sarah Moss the best British writer never nominated for the Booker?'' Daily Mail ''Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch'' Jessie Burton ''The most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes'' Joanna Trollope
About the author
Sarah Moss is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin’s School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland. She has published six novels as well as a number of non-fiction works. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize., Sarah Moss is the author of several novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels are Summerwater, Cold Earth, Night Waking, Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and Ghost Wall, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019.
Sarah was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik and West Cornwall, she now lives in the Midlands and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.
