Summerwater YA a social worker and activist

a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame

offering a new world to explore on every page

As they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness

In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet

A book to help us better understand why we are where we are

Summerwater YA a social worker and activistA Best Book of January at O, The Oprah Magazine A Best Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Times (London), and The Irish Times [Moss] writes beautifully about . . . souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way theyd hoped . . . Theres little doubt, reading Moss, that youre in the hands of a sophisticated and gifted writer. Dwight Garner, The New York Times The acclaimed author of Ghost Wall offers a new, devastating,