BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Moss’s ‘Ghost Wall’ exposes the dangers of ancestral purity
The book is a timely reminder of the vanity of the myth and a critique of the rise of Donald-Trump led demagoguery
20 June 2019 - 05:05
Scientists remain puzzled by the lives and deaths of the bog bodies found in Celtic Europe. We do know, however, that they came to a grisly end. None more so than the young, iron age woman in the terse, uncanny prologue to British writer and academic Sarah Moss’s slim novel Ghost Wall.
Held, bound and then murdered before an audience of her neighbours and family — “people who held her hand as she learnt to walk” — she remembers how she was once one of them as “her eyes widen to the last sky” and she hovers in the moment between life and death...
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