Ghost Wall
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By Sarah Moss
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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.
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Amazing piece of sparse writing that conveys so much in so few pages. There are no excess words or description. Heartbreaking but unsentimentally told from the point of view of a teenage girl in a troubled household while on a historical re-enactment weekend. Sinister and emotive.
Devoured this gripping book in one sitting. She held my attention from the first sentence and although it's a short book there's an awful lot in there and it packs a powerful punch. Highly recommended.
