The Winter Guest
Jan 2027 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A perfectly crafted, brief, tense tale of two strangers on a winter’s night in a quiet, secluded hotel and the stories they tell each other, from the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater.
Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done.
One winter’s night, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside, the hotel windows twinkle with fairy lights and they share a meal. The waiter pours wine and someone proposes a toast.
Janice and Gerry are strangers. In that casual, glancing space afforded to travelers who know they will never meet again, they each take their turn.
What makes a story a confession? In Sarah Moss's The Winter Guest, the storm outside is no match for the tension building within, and a playful icebreaker creates a surprising sort of fireside tale―charged, ticking, and ready for the spark.
Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done.
One winter’s night, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside, the hotel windows twinkle with fairy lights and they share a meal. The waiter pours wine and someone proposes a toast.
Janice and Gerry are strangers. In that casual, glancing space afforded to travelers who know they will never meet again, they each take their turn.
What makes a story a confession? In Sarah Moss's The Winter Guest, the storm outside is no match for the tension building within, and a playful icebreaker creates a surprising sort of fireside tale―charged, ticking, and ready for the spark.
A perfectly crafted, brief, tense tale of two strangers on a winter’s night in a quiet, secluded hotel and the stories they tell each other, from the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater.
Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done.
One winter’s night, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast,...
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About the author
Sarah Moss is the author of the novels Ripeness, The Fell, Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, the memoir My Good Bright Wolf, and many other books. Her work has been listed among the best books of the year in The Guardian, The Times (London), Elle, and the Financial Times and was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choice. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she was educated at the University of Oxford and now teaches at University College Dublin.
Sarah Moss is the author of the novels Ripeness, The Fell, Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, the memoir My Good Bright Wolf, and many other books. Her work has been listed among the best books of the year in The Guardian, The Times (London), Elle, and the Financial Times and was selected for The New Y...
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