![]() ![]() The reenactment is meant to mimic life as it was lived 2,500 years ago, and so the participants-Bill, his wife, Alison, and their daughter, Silvie an archaeology professor and a few of his students-are roughing it in a wooded area near the North Sea. ![]() ![]() He channels his rage and insecurities into historical reenactments, one of which is at the heart of Moss’s harrowing novel. “That’s where you come from,” he told Silvie, “those folk, that’s how it used to be.” Unfortunately, Bill is consumed with the crackpot idea that his once-pure country has been sullied by immigration. A bitter man who abhors the modern world, Bill Hampton rhapsodized about an exhibition of Bronze Age artifacts. 144 pages.Įarly in Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall, the narrator, a smart seventeen-year-old named Silvie, recalls accompanying her father to a history museum near their home in northern England. ![]()
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