
Synopsis
Moving from 60s Italy to contemporary Ireland, Ripeness is a breathtaking story of love and the search for belonging from Sarah Moss, bestselling author of Summerwater.
'Moss makes every moment count' - The Sunday Times
'The achievement of a lifetime' - Jessie Burton
'Luminous' - Financial Times
'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton
On the brink of adulthood and just out of school,...
Details
304 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Sex and childbirth, emigrant and exile, the present and the past: Sarah Moss’s ambidextrous talent is evident on every page of this elegant novel. It is intelligent, but never disembodied; evocative, but never sentimental; honest, but never cruel. Ripeness is a book of tart and lasting pleasuresEleanor Catton, Booker prize-winning author of The Luminaries and Birnam Wood
This book felt to me like I was reading the achievement of a lifetime, written by one of the best writers alive. Moving, unexpected, masterful, it is a story of stories, of belonging, of exits and entrances, and everything in between. Moss’s understanding of who her characters are is also her understanding of all of us. A beautiful, powerful read that echoed for me long afterJessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
Tender and rueful, Ripeness is a tale of being a foreigner that moves between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland, finding pain and bliss in both. Working at the height of her mature powers, Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquenceEmma Donoghue, author of Room
I devoured Ripeness, thrilling at the world Moss brings to life and the characters who inhabit it. What a delicious novelLiterary Review