A group of students go to Greenland in August on an archaeological dig just as a pandemic is sweeping the world. Their mission is to discover why a Viking settlement was suddenly abandoned. They have a month to complete the job. Wow, this is spooky stuff. There are supernatural undertones, fear they will never get off the island, discord within the group and then a despair which results in each writing a last letter home. Compulsive and unexpected, I found it hard to put down.
Comparison: Sarah Hall (The Carhullan Army), Cormac MacCarthy (The Road), Margaret Atwood.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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THE EXCEPTIONAL DEBUT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FELL 'I revelled in Cold Earth. Brilliant' Penelope Lively 'Chilling and remarkable... Moss is a master at evoking suspense' Guardian On the west coast of Greenland, a team of archaeologists searching for traces of lost Viking settlements receives news from back home: a deadly pandemic has swept across the world. As the Arctic winter approaches and their communications with the outside world fail, the six abandoned souls are left fighting for survival, writing letters to loved ones they may never receive. Cold Earth is a chilling, haunting and scarily prescient tale of grief, isolation and the will to survive. 'Unnerving, ambitious... utterly absorbing and - appropriately enough - very chilling' Daily Mail
Cold Earth features in the following genres: Debut Books of the Month, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
Cold Earth is available in Paperback, Ebook
Cold Earth was written by Sarah Moss and published by Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications
Cold Earth has 279 pages
£8.99
