My Good Bright Wolf

There’s something beautifully wild and dangerous about this book … My Good Bright Wolf is a howl both exquisitely anguished and profound. It’s further proof that Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape. – Lucy Scholes, The TelegraphI’ve never read anything quite like My Good Bright Wolf. Part memoir, part confessional, part dark and feverish fairytale, Moss explores her subject matter with characteristic attentiveness and unflinching honesty. This book invites the reader to step into the narrator’s oftentimes uncomfortable shoes and, in doing so, confront what it means to be a woman, an artist, a human being, trying to find a way to be. – Jan Carson, author of The RapturesA counterspell to the dark enchantment of anorexia, and an utterly original testimonial of great candour and eloquence, hope and redemption. An unflinching take on feminist and literary history, the indignities of illness, and the vulnerabilities of childhood. Sarah Moss does it again. – Gavin FrancisDevastating, funny and full of brilliant insights. This is a brave book, but more than that it is generous. It has made me think about how incredibly porous we all are: to our families, to society, to culture, to each other. That’s why this book is important: it asks us to take responsibility for our impact on each other. – Melissa HarrisonSarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir…[A] complex, textured story * The New York Times *Defiant in its anger and humour, My Good Bright Wolf is a compulsive and compelling story of how hard it is to break free of the punishing narratives around women’s bodies and how easy it is to nearly lose yourself to them. And it is also a story of how words - painful and beautiful, wolf-sharp words - can be a way back. – Emilie PineSarah Moss’s gorgeous, puzzle box of a memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, runs far and fast through the heart of memory, our love of stories, and the beautiful blur between the two. – Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten BookA compelling portrait of a sensitive, deeply intelligent woman struggling to reconcile a difficult emotional past with the misogyny that tainted the social and intellectual environments she inhabited. Rich, complex reading. * Kirkus *A stirring and singular achievement * Publishers Weekly *A thought-provoking, tender midlife memoir … a brilliant mind * The Guardian *An observational masterpiece, littered with sentences you want to read again and again * The i *Brilliant … brave, worthy and fierce * The Irish Times *Full of daring … revelatory * The Observer *Without a doubt, [Sarah Moss] is one of our greatest living writers. – Katherine May

Sarah Moss has written several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, and Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She has also written a memoir of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the Midlands, she now lives in Dublin, where she teaches English and creative writing at UCD.