Shortlisted for The Saltire's Non-Fiction Book of the Year A memoir about thinking and reading
eating and denying your body food about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles
of childhood. 'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary
landscape' - The Daily Telegraph 'Devastating funny . . . a brave and important book' -
Melissa Harrison 'Full of daring . . . revelatory' - The Observer 'An observational
masterpiece' - The i In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female
body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she
must keep herself slim but never be vain she must be intelligent but never angry. Clever girls
should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small. Years later
her self-control had become dangerous and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her
teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency forcing her to reckon with all that she had
denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind. My Good Bright Wolf navigates
contested memories of girlhood the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged
Sarah's every thought and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful
audacious moving and very funny this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns
on itself and then finds a way out. From Sarah Moss the Sunday Times bestselling author of
Summerwater My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other. 'Compulsive and compelling' -
Emilie Pine 'Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be' - Jan Carson
'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect
as a novelist's can be' - The Times
