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Night Waking (Paperback)
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Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an
insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and
a frequently-absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to
Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the
puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her
desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted
by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house.
Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years
before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to
introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders. The
lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply
moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal
ambivalence, the way we try to control children, and about women's
vexed and passionate relationship with work.Moss's second novel
displays an exciting expansion of her range - showing her to be
both an excellent comic writer, and a novelist of great emotional
depth.
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Imprint: |
Granta Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2011 |
First published: |
February 2011 |
Authors: |
Sarah Moss
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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ISBN-13: |
978-1-84708-215-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-84708-215-7 |
Barcode: |
9781847082152 |
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