"A slim, tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one
sitting." --Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the Stars
From the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater, Sarah
Moss's The Fell is a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal
freedom, and the ever-nearness of disaster.
At dusk on a November evening, a woman slips through her garden gate and
turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week mandatory
quarantine period, a true lockdown, but she can't take it anymore--the
closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway,
the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know she's
stepped out.
Kate planned only a quick walk--a stretch of the legs, a breath of fresh
air--on paths she knows too well. But somehow she falls. Injured, unable
to move, she sees that her short, furtive stroll will become a mountain
rescue operation, maybe even a missing person case.
Sarah Moss's The Fell is a story of mutual responsibility, personal
freedom, and compassion. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it asks probing
questions about how close so many live to the edge and about who we are
in the world, who we are to our neighbors, and who we become when the
world demands we shut ourselves away.
