**Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2019** A powerful and chilling novel of forbidden borders, haunted landscapes and a teenage girl in danger

'I love this book. Put your life on hold while you finish it' Maggie O'Farrell A suspenseful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes and a teenage girl in danger... Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who are attempting to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses the possibility of freedom with the students - new female friendships and a sexual awakening - her difficult relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate. As the feelings of dread build the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present... 'This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully, that as soon as I'd finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again' Jessie Burton 'An instant classic' Emma Donoghue 'I loved it' Bernardine Evaristo

"A burnished gem... brilliant" - Guardian

"Stunningly good" - Observer

"Breathtaking" - Metro

"Exquisite...will send shivers down your spine" - Financial Times

"An amazing story ... disturbing and touching at the same time" - The Times

"A taut tale alive with intelligence and sensuousness" - Sunday Times

"Moss's star is firmly in the ascendant" - Guardian

"This divided country's most urgent novelist" - Spectator

"Compelling" - Observer

"A worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evokes existential dread, but contains it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle" - New Yorker

"Further proof that Moss is one of our very best contemporary novelists.... Ghost Wall is an intoxicating concoction; inventive, intelligent, and like no other author's work" - Independent

"I'm a great fan of Sarah Moss's work; she combines poetic sensibility with great storytelling... Moss is brilliant on atmosphere" - Metro

"This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully, that as soon as I'd finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again" - The Miniaturist

"Eerie and gripping" - Bookseller

"Stunningly good... Over a staggeringly short distance Moss creates and manipulates an atmosphere of extreme tension... As the story edges towards its climax, Moss appears to collapse layers of history, to render skin and knife and rope identical across millennia" - Observer

"As brief and unsettling as a bolt of lightning" - Daily Mail

"A coming-of-age story with rare power and startling depth" - In the Moment

"A literary star continues to rise... taut, suspenseful" - Sunday Telegraph

"The exhilarating originality of Moss's sixth novel makes it impossible to resist... underpinned by a fierce sense of place and precise, poetic prose" - Observer

"Compact and vivid" - Sunday Times

"Brilliant" - Business Day

"Unputdownable" - Guardian

"Finely balanced . . . combines a strong sense of the natural world with a growing menace" - Mail on Sunday

"Slim and spooky . . . well worth your time" - Times

"This slight novel contains so much more than works many times its length...a second reading is essential" - New Books

"This is a book you'll want to read again and again . . . Harrowing!" - Sunday Post

"Ghost Wall deserves way more accolades than it's getting" - Irish Examiner

"A brilliant exercise in dark suspense that leaves you shuddering at the possibilities...haunting" - Stylist

"[A] short, emotionally intense novel, exploring abuse, history and the redemptive power of nature" - East Anglian Daily Times

"A brilliant exercise in dark suspense that leaves you shuddering at the possibilities... haunting" - Stylist

"An unnerving indictment of misogyny... pitch-perfect" - TLS

"Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss makes me sad for England, now that Brexit is near...it is true to some idea of England - of landscape, tradition and deep history - which is being clawed back, by these writers, from English nationalism" - Irish Times

"I loved it" - Observer

"Gosh it's so good, and Moss is the most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes" - i paper

"Breath-taking" - The Quietus