My Good Bright Wolf, 9781250397713
Paperback
Girlhood rules shattered: a memoir of food, books, and freedom.

My Good Bright Wolf

A Memoir

$57.39

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    21 October 2025

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Summary

“Heartbreaking … Beautiful.” –Amanda Seyfried, *The New Yorker*

Long-listed for the National Book Critics Award for Autobiography A Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, and the New York Public Library A Must-Read: New York, Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, *Shelf Awareness*

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell<…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781250397713
ISBN-10:1250397715
Author:Sarah Moss
Publisher:St Martin's Press
Imprint:St Martin's Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:21 October 2025
Weight:281g
Dimensions:201mm x 130mm x 22mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Spellbinding imagination and sizzling prose … Glorious.” –Dina Nayeri, The Guardian

“Powerfully original … Brilliant.” –Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times Book Review

“Poetic … Approach[es] truth, in all its messy, kaleidoscopic glory.” –Emily Gould, New York

“Extraordinary.” –Marion Winik, The Boston Globe

“Breathtaking … [Moss] broke my heart.” –Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times

“Haunting … [with] a dark, headlong allure.” –Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

“Stunning.” –Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times

“Beautifully wild and dangerous … A howl both exquisitely anguished and profound … Further proof that Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape.”–Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph

”[A] gorgeous puzzle box of a memoir … 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 Book

“What My Good Bright Wolf offers is what Moss always offers and what literature should always offer; an unflinching willingness to confront what is difficult.”–Ben Clarke, Chicago Review of Books

“Revelatory … Full of daring.”–Ellen Peirson-Hagger, The Observer

“An enlightening meditation on what it means to be nourished.”–Haley Huchler, Washington Independent Review of Books

“A significant achievement … Piercingly perceptive.”–Oonagh Devitt Tremblay, Times Literary Supplement

”[A] riveting, lacerating, blazing memoir.”–Booklist

“A stirring and singular achievement.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Sensitive, deeply intelligent … Rich, complex reading.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Feisty and original … A dark fairy tale.”–Rebecca Foster, Shelf Awareness (starred review)

“Gorgeous … Poetic.”–BookBrowse

“Honest, poignant, thoughtful, brave and beautifully written.”–Bookreporter

“Searching, scorching … A bodily song of instinct, survival, and strength.” –Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren

About The Author

Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss is the author of the novels The Fell, Summerwater, and Ghost Wall. These and others of her books have been listed among the best of the year in The Guardian, The Times (London), Elle, and the Financial Times and 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.

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