Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently-absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narra... >Voir plus
Sarah Moss sur la façon dont ses premières ébauches sont comme les maquettes d'une couturière, la recherche qui précède chaque nouveau projet qu'elle entreprend et l'importance de la lecture pour un écrivain.