Here are my two most anticipated releases for November! Both are set in 2020, during the pandemic.

The Fell - Sarah Moss (Picador, 11th November)
Sarah Moss is on route to become one of my favourite authors. I've read Ghost Wall and Summerwater to date and thought both were fantastic, so I'm looking forward to reading this slim novel (under 200 pages) reflecting on the experience of being locked down and the place the world has become since March 2020.

At 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 a two-week quarantine period, but she just can't take it any more – the 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 Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk – a breath of open air – falls 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 place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive, and it will move you to tears.

Wish You Were Here - Jodi Picoult (Hodder & Stoughton, 25th November)
It's been a fair few years since I read anything by Jodi Picoult but I'm intrigued by the premise of Wish You Were Here, in which the main character is stranded in the Galápagos.

Diana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's and she's about to fly to the Galápagos where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose.
But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to stay. But you should still go, he insists. And reluctantly, she agrees.
Once she's in the Galápagos, the world shuts down around her, leaving Diana stranded - albeit in paradise. Completely isolated, with only intermittent news from the outside world, Diana finds herself examining everything that has brought her to this point and wondering if there's a better way to live.
But not everything is as it seems . . .

Are you interested in reading either of these? Let me know in the comments any forthcoming releases you are looking forward to!

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