Sarah Moss for Ripeness

Please note, this event is now taking place in Pilrig St Paul's / LARCH on Leith Walk.

'One of our very best contemporary novelists' ~ Independent

'Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years'~ Financial Times

Sarah Moss is the author of several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize. She has also written a memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, and Names for the Sea, which is an account of her year living in Iceland.

Moss joins us for her new novel Ripeness, an extraordinary story about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong...

It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby's fate, and his mother's.

Decades later, happily divorced and newly energized, Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help.

‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be.’ ~ The Times

‘Without a doubt, Sarah Moss is one of our greatest living writers.’ ~ Katherine May, author of Wintering