Book 2018
Ghost Wall
3.510 44 readers shelved it
- 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.