Sarah Moss for The Winter Guest

A novel to gulp down in one sitting, The Winter Guest, from Sunday Times bestselling author, Sarah Moss, is an enthralling story about how the past will always come to find you in the end.

'Destined to be one of those Christmas Eve classics' Rachel Joyce

'Pure pleasure from start to finish' Katherine Rundell

Tell me the worst thing you've ever done.

On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland's west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside windows twinkling with fairy lights, they share a meal, pour wine, propose a toast.

Janice and Gerry may be strangers to one another, but they each have a confession to make.

As the blizzard howls, the night will take an unexpected turn, and their conversation will have consequences far beyond the candlelit table . . .

Sarah Moss is the author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, longlisted for the Women's Prize, and Ripeness. She has also written two memoirs, My Good Bright Wolf—winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at The Saltires, Scotland's National Book Awards—and Names for the Sea, which is an account of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the English Midlands, she now lives in Dublin.