Book review: Ghost Wall, by Sarah Moss

There is a danger, in the current political climate, of reading anything and everything in the context of Brexit, but while Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall would still be just as gripping and just as powerful a work of fiction had the vote gone the other way on 23 June, 2016, the circumstances in which we now find ourselves certainly give it added resonance. (It’s also interesting to note that in the acknowledgements the author says she started work on the book while she was on a writing residency as part of the tenth Hexham Literary Festival - an event which took place in July 2016, in the immediate aftermath of the referendum.)