_'One of our very best contemporary novelists' ~ INDEPENDENT_
_'Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years'~ FINANCIAL TIMES_
Sarah Moss is the author of several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller _Summerwater_, and _Ghost Wall_, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize. She has also written a memoir, _My Good Bright Wolf,_ and _Names for the Sea_, which is an account of her year living in Iceland.
Moss joins us for her new novel _Ripeness,_ an extraordinary story about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong...
_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._
_‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be.’ ~ THE TIMES_
_‘Without a doubt, Sarah Moss is one of our greatest living writers.’ ~ KATHERINE MAY, AUTHOR OF WINTERING_