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Book 2018

Ghost Wall

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Publisher
Granta Books
Published
2018
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • England, fiction
  • Fathers and daughters, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Fiction, family life
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, thrillers, general

Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax.