From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, comes a story about the circumstances and the consequences of isolation.A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting- Emma DonoghueHer work is as close to perfect as a novelists can be- The TimesAt dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of two weeks of Covid isolation, but she just cant take it any morethe closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know.But Kates neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kates son, soon realizes shes missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walka breath of open airfalls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain-rescue operation . . .Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the pla