Ripeness by Sarah Moss

The achievement of a lifetime' - Jessie Burton, author of The House of Fortune'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of Birnam Wood'A powerful and beautifully written story of family, friendship and identity' - GuardianJust out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent alone to rural Italy. Her task is simple: support her sister Lydia, a brilliant but brittle ballet dancer, through the final weeks of her pregnancy. Once the baby is born, she is to make a phone call that will change all of their lives forever. Decades later, Edith is living a contented life in Ireland, happily divorced and unexpectedly free. But when her friend M?abh receives an email from a stranger claiming to be her brother, everything shifts. As M?abh confronts a history she never knew she had, Edith must finally face the truth of that long-ago summer, and the secret she has carried for a lifetime. `Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence' - Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express`One of our greatest living writers' - Katherine May, author of WinteringPraise for Sarah Moss:`Throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel`One of our very best contemporary novelists' The 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?' The 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 Trollope
Binding: Hardback