![]() ![]() Silvie has learned from earliest childhood how to survive: hunting, gathering and enduring her father's tempers. Mum, usually a grocery store clerk, is in charge of cooking and cleanup on the trip. ![]() In normal life, Dad scrapes a living as a bus driver but his work holidays are devoted to being an amateur historian and reenactment guide. Silvie reluctantly follows her parents' demands, although she yearns for autonomy. This involves adopting the clothing and tools of the ancient Picts who thrived in Northumberland before the Romans conquered the region in the mid-first century A.D. ![]() 16-year-old Silvie is assisting her parents on a historical reenactment project, guiding a team of young adult archaeology students (Peter, Dan and Molly) and their professor Jim on a short course to practice traditional bushcraft. ![]() Moss then shifts to the present to introduce her protagonist, but this violence still hangs in the air. The short prologue describes a brutal ritual sacrifice that happened in the area in ancient times. Although set in the 21st century, Sarah Moss contrasts primitive ways with contemporary attitudes to build tension throughout the narrative. In this slim, psychologically-taut novel, a teenage girl's historical reenactment trip with her parents launches a coming-of-age rebellion.Ī suspenseful, literary coming-of-age novel set in rural Northumberland, England, Ghost Wall tackles potent themes of feminine power, rage and resistance, toxic masculinity, and survival. ![]()
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