Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Paperback)

One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read - Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Beautifully written ... Moss grapples with new foods, customs and landscapes that are both oddly familiar and wildly alien in this absorbing memoir - Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times

A fascinating and unusual book, a genuine news from nowhere, the gripping account of one person thinking and perceiving for herself - Joanna Kavenna, Literary Review

Moss is a wry and a very good companion... and her book is as perceptive of the southern English middle-classes, as it is of Icelanders - Kathleen Jamie, Guardian

A wry, intimate and beautifully-observed portrait of a culture both alien and familiar. Sarah Moss's account of her Icelandic sojourn is a vicarious treat - Philip Marsden

Holds an uncompromising mirror up to the British life that she has left behind. Honest, funny, frank, and insightful, it is a reassuring guide to the strangeness of being a stranger. An enviable experience beautifully described - Gavin Francis

[Moss] sheds light on the strangeness of the country for an outsider as well as on the Icelanders' ongoing trauma... Absorbing - Emily Read, Spectator

A thoughtful and moving description of a country - Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller

It is Moss's inquisitive excursions into the real and imagined Icelandic landscapes that enthral the most... engaging [and] expressive - Rob St John, List

This tale perfectly evokes the country's natural splendours, but it's the colourful cast of friends and hangers-on that is so touching - National Geographic Traveller

Moss writes honestly... She mocks her won cultural assumptions drily - Nancy Campbell, Times Literary Supplement

This delightful and appealing book is written in a crisp and insightful style... filled with descriptions of the northern landscape which capture it perfectly... Very funny - We Love This Book

Fantastic and perceptive... Moss is so subtle and skilled at what she does, as careful and precise a prose specialist as you will find, that it hangs together seamlessly and brilliantly - Big Issue

An insightful account of a year in a beguiling but often incomprehensible land of fire and ice... this is a delightful tale with a strong sense of place - Duncan Mills, Traveller

Her wit, like her sensitivity to social matters, is complemented by her astoundingly alert writing about the natural world - Kevin Canfield, Star Tribune

Always illuminating - Washington Post

Beautiful - Travelers Today

A wry memoir about a family who move to Iceland for a year in the aftermath of the financial crash. Moss discovers as much about herself as she does the Icelanders she writes about. - Destination books this summer, Elle

A wonderful, meditative and informative introduction to a country that's both progressive and steeped in more myths, legends and sagas than any other... All Icelandic life is here - New European