A review by bumble_abi
Summerwater by Sarah Moss

emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Set over one summer solstice in a rain-drenched holiday cabin park in the Scottish countryside, this book is made up of a bunch of successive streams of consciousness which together offer sharp (and often blackly funny) insight into the contemporary British consciousness. Moss is a genius about the mundane antagonisms that steal the joy from the everyday, and most of this book is following people through a day where nothing much happens, where they struggle to live alongside each other, where the tension quietly drips down and down until the soil can hold no more and it erupts into a furious crescendo in the final few pages. Remarkably observant, a taut, clever, cutting little book.
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