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  • Ghost Wall

  • A Novel
  • Auteur(s): Sarah Moss
  • Narrateur(s): Christine Hewitt
  • Durée: 3 h et 48 min
  • 4,4 out of 5 stars (18 évaluations)

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Ghost Wall

Auteur(s): Sarah Moss
Narrateur(s): Christine Hewitt
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2019 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year 

2019 The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 

2019 NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing

2019 Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year 

2019 The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year 

2018 Financial Times Books of the Year 

2018 The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 

2018 The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior. 

The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. 

In the North of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.  

For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs - particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.   

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?   

A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss’ Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.    

Praise for Ghost Wall: 

“I have never read a novel this slender that holds inside it quite so much. Wild, calm, dark yet hopeful, a girl with a smart-mouth narrates her own difficult history as well as that of Britain.... This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skillfully that as soon as I’d finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again.” (Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist)

“I stayed up half the night gulping down Sarah Moss’s slim, unnervingly tense novel. Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant classic.” (Emma Donoghue, author of Room)

©2018 Sarah Moss (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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  • Catégories: LGBTQ2S+

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Narrator Christine Hewitt's insightful characterizations bring greater depth to Moss's nuanced and gripping novel... She's especially effective as Sylvie, whose internal dialogue is biting but whose spoken interactions are colored by fear of her father." (AudioFile Magazine, Earphones award winner)

Financial Times Books of the Year

The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year

Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year

NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing,

The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year 

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Just not my type of story

The description of this book is accurate, and the sample I listened to seemed promising, but in the end it was just not the kind of book I find enjoyable. The narration is pretty good although I had trouble distinguishing some of the characters from each other in the beginning. This was less of a problem the further along I got. The story is well written in terms of describing the surroundings and the dialogue feels quite natural. There are no chapters which I found a bit annoying as I am one of those readers that will always stop reading at the end of a chapter. With this book, I had to wait for a longer than normal silence and then something like "The next morning..." to know I was in a good stopping place. It is a short book and nothing that interesting happens for the first half; it is a slow burn. There is also some disturbing content and our protagonist was not very appealing to me. The ending was reassuring but, overall, I cannot say I liked this book. I can understand why others might like it, but it just was not for me.

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Heartbreaking Gem

This book was a recommendation from my best friend, who has impeccable taste and is also a librarian. I couldn’t stop listening — fascinated, angry, indignant for the main character. But the ending was perfect. I will be thinking about this for weeks to come. Highly recommended.

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perfect

I just wish I could hear more about the experiential magic happening at the site

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