A review by lorellei
Summerwater by Sarah Moss

emotional relaxing tense slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This year I have firstly encounter Sarah Moss, through Ghost wall and similar to that one, Summerwater gets 4 stars. Sarah Moss reminds me of Ali Smith, I will for sure read all her books. Summerwater is not plot driven, some families and couples are on holiday, somewhere near a loch, in Scotland and it rains. You get the perspective of each character (with one exception), a lot of info for such a short book and a lot of subjects, like climate change, feminism, immigration, long term relationships, sex, family, money, sport. Basically every possible subject appears due to lack of activity thanks to the rain. 

I enjoyed the details for each character, you could differentiate clearly between them. The scenery, loved it, I really miss Scotland, the holiday there still brings back great memories. I am amused by "the Romanians" with the loud music, we do not appear a lot in english novels, but when we do...things happen, it seems.
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