- Published: 05/07/2012
- ISBN: 9781847085849
- Granta Books
- 368 pages
Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss
At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss and her husband moved with their two small children to Iceland. From their makeshift home among the half-finished skyscrapers of Reykjavik, Moss travels to hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters, and the remote farms and fishing villages of the far north. She watches the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months go by, she and her family find new ways to live.
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One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read
Helen Rumbelow, The Times
Beautifully written ... Moss grapples with new foods, customs and landscapes that are both oddly familiar and wildly alien in this absorbing memoir
Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times
A fascinating and unusual book, a genuine news from nowhere, the gripping account of one person thinking and perceiving for herself
Joanna Kavenna, Literary Review
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Essays & Memoir | Granta 166
Generation Gap
Sarah Moss
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
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A Wolf in the Forest Wants
Sarah Moss
‘I biked to the hospital anyway, because it didn’t occur to me to think of an alternative form of transport.’
Sarah Moss on her admission to hospital.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Louise Kennedy & Sarah Moss
Two Ireland-based writers discussing national identity, disappointing holidays and art deco china.
