<p><b>From Sarah Moss, the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Summerwater</i> and <i>Ghost Wall</i>, comes a story about the circumstances and the consequences of isolation.</b><br><br><b>‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped <i>The Fell</i> down in one sitting’ - Emma Donoghue</b><br><b>‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ - <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>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 two weeks of isolation, 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.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br><b>Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, <i>The Fell</i> asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive.</b><br><br><b>‘Gripping, thoughtful and revelatory’ - Paula Hawkins</b><br><b>‘This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year’ - Rachel Joyce</b><br><b>‘One of our very best contemporary novelists’ - <i>Independent</i></b></p>