Seventeen-year-old Silvie joins her parents and a group of archaeology students on a summer field trip in northern England, where they’re reenacting life in the Iron Age — hunting, cooking, and living as their ancestors once did. But what begins as an educational experiment soon turns unsettling.

Under her father’s strict rule and obsession with the “authentic past,” Silvie becomes trapped in a world where ancient brutality and modern control blur together. As the group’s rituals grow darker, she’s forced to confront how the ghosts of history still shape the violence of the present.

Taut, haunting, and deeply atmospheric, Ghost Wall is a powerful story about patriarchy, identity, and the stories we tell to justify cruelty. Sarah Moss delivers a chilling, beautifully written novella that lingers long after the final page.