A wonderfully atmospheric moody window into a brief moment of time, with glorious utterly, believable characterisation, Summerwater by Sarah Moss is like a film in slow motion, with a growing sense of trepidation as you move towards the final moments where the dreamlike quality will suddenly speed up leaving you as if woken in shock from an unnerving dream.

Set over just the few hours of the longest day of the year, in a Scottish holiday chalet park where the incessant rain means there is little to do but watch others who are also trying to survive another dreich day, Moss brilliantly gets under you skin with her seemingly effortless acute observations. Deliciously written and easily devoured in a single sitting.

[Reviewed for FOLIO by Zoe]

Book review: Summerwater