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Sarah moss ghost wall6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The group is divided by both class and ideology: Half are posh intellectuals from an unnamed university, taking part for course credit. Moss’s tiny, sharp knife of a novel Ghost Wall follows a group of reenactors who call themselves “experimental archeologists” as they re-create Iron Age life in Northumberland, England, some time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the advent of cellphones. When walls are built to keep out foreigners, many of them rest on some idea of blood claim. ![]() It didn’t work-the Romans still came, followed by the Anglo-Saxons and then the Normans-but you can see why the Iron Age Britons might have tried it. A ghost wall, according to the novelist Sarah Moss, is a battlement made by ancient Britons, hung with the preserved skulls of their ancestors. ![]()
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