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The Fell

By: Sarah Moss
Narrated by: Emma Lowndes
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Acclaimed author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall Sarah Moss is back with a sharply observed and darkly funny novel for our times.

At dusk on a November evening in 2020, a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period, but she just can’t take it any more - 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.

But Kate’s neighbour Alice sees her leaving, and Matt, Kate’s son, soon realizes she’s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain rescue operation....

Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020 and the place it was before. Sarah Moss' novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive, and it will move you to tears.

The Times audiobook of the week.

©2021 Sarah Moss (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Funny Witty

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Critic reviews

"A tense page turner...I gulped The Fell down in one sitting." (Emma Donoghue)

"One of the best writers at work in Britain today." (Fiona Mozley, author of Elmet)

"One of our very best contemporary novelists." (Independent)

"Moss is the most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes." (Joanna Trollope)

"Moss’s star is firmly in the ascendant." (Guardian)

"Gripping, thoughtful and revelatory." (Paula Hawkins)

"This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year." (Rachel Joyce)

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This is a story ideal for audio. Internal dialogues and much takes place in the dark. wouldn't work on TV.
Maybe it's an odd time to get gripped by a 2020 historical novel but this had me hooked.

2020

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Brilliant lockdown novel. The pressures on different people very realistically captured.
Narration was absolutely spot on too.

Brilliant lockdown novel

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I found this a bit dull, perhaps because the woman was so annoying and stupid

over rated

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The story is excellent. Narrative is excellent and compelling. The narration by Emma Lowndes really brings the story alive. Highly recommended.

Brilliant,

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Hard to listen to as we face a third - or fourth - lockdown but I summed up so many of my feelings about it. Luckily where we live no one was reporting me for doing long runs, walks and bike rides every day. I could really empathise with Kate. As usual SM is brilliant at inner monologues and stream of consciousness narratives. Should be on a prize list somewhere. I’ll read the book once my library hold comes up. The narrator has an authentic northern accent which helped but I found the singing parts too much when running. The raven reminded me of crow in ‘grief is a thing with feathers’.

Fall

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Beautifully written and narrated. My only complaint is that the story is too short - it seems to be just getting going when it ends rather abruptly.

A beautiful little book with excellent narration

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Good narrator, and interesting dip into a small communities lives during the pandemic covid restrictions.

Well read, good story

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Good book warned up after a chapter based in lockdown. Enjoyed it especially the raven

Warm up

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Definitely not one for me! Although it made you think about life in general, focussing on the way people felt so isolated during Lockdown, I found it rather negative. The Narrator read too fast for me. I carried on listening till the ending which seemed too abrupt.Disappointing.

Thought Provoking.

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Somehow I managed to survive lockdown without a breakdown. No-one in this novel had a happy life; it was just doom and gloom and loads of negative inner thoughts, mainly about death and being incarcerated. I was pleased that Kate was found on the fell - but to go out without her mobile was unforgiveable. I am a happy Rambler, and this book does no favours to the community of responsible walkers.

Depressing

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