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A review by emilybh
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
4.0
'I found a couple of shells, white against the dark stones, and added them to my pile [...] The sky was dark and shiny like the inside of a mussel shell and sea was quiet, waves lapping like little tongues on the beach and the water out past the rocks moving smoothly as fur.'
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I've loved reading Sarah Moss' novels over the past few years, so it was strange when I realised the one I hadn't yet read is her first, about a group of archaeologists on a remote site in Greenland who lose contact with the outside world as a pandemic begins. In Cold Earth I found her writing unsettling, strange and beautiful as always, whilst the present parallels with the wider plot made it hard to put down.
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I've loved reading Sarah Moss' novels over the past few years, so it was strange when I realised the one I hadn't yet read is her first, about a group of archaeologists on a remote site in Greenland who lose contact with the outside world as a pandemic begins. In Cold Earth I found her writing unsettling, strange and beautiful as always, whilst the present parallels with the wider plot made it hard to put down.