Eliza Moss

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Eliza Moss (pseudonym for Sarah Moss) is a London based actor, singer and author. She has worked extensively in theatre, including the West End, and across screen and audio, and has released three Eps. She graduated with First Class honours from The University of Manchester and is a recent alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative Three-Month Novel writing course.

Her debut novel, WHAT IT’S LIKE IN WORDS, will be published by Holt (Macmillan) in December 2024:

‘An astute debut… Moss keenly portrays how Enola’s sense of self-worth becomes tied to B’s perception of her. It’s an arresting portrait of manipulation.’ Publishers Weekly 

‘Dynamic debut portrays a dysfunctional, abusive relationship…The author deftly captures obsession, as well as the ways in which myriad small belittling comments can become the deepest of cuts. A searing novel about why we love people who are bad for us’ Kirkus 

“Obsessive love is at the heart of this compulsively readable debut novel, which should appeal to fans of Colleen Hoover” Library Journal

“With echoes of Sally Rooney and Lily King, Eliza Moss is a fresh new voice who exquisitely captures the quirks of what it means to be imperfectly human and beautifully fragile. This book reads like poetry.” Neely Tubati Alexander, author of Love Buzz and In a Not-So-Perfect World

“I devoured WHAT IT’S LIKE IN WORDS with breathless admiration for Eliza Moss’s raw, propulsive story of toxic love and obsession.” Caitlin Barasch, author of A Novel Obsession

‘What It’s Like in Words is a consuming portrait of a young woman building and rebuilding herself from the wreckage of her past lives. Eliza Moss masterfully renders how it feels to be ruled by grief and toxic obsession, and what it takes to break out of a prison of your own making. Devastating and tender, What It’s Like in Words is a love letter to friendship, art-making, and the messiest parts of ourselves.’ Ruth Madievsky nationally bestselling author of All-Night Pharmacy

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WHAT IT'S LIKE IN WORDS 2025 Henry Holt & Company
Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can’t finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won’t speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together at the weekends. Enter: enigmatic writer. Enola falls in love and starts to dream about their perfect future: the wedding, the publishing deals, the house in Stoke Newington. But the reality is far from perfect. He’s distant. But she’s a Cool Girl, she doesn’t need to hear from him every day. He hangs out with his ex. But she’s a Cool Girl, she’s not insecure. Is she? He has dark moods. But he’s a creative, that’s part of his ‘process’. Her best friend begs her to end it, but Enola can’t. She’s a Cool Girl. She might feel like she’s going crazy at times, but she wants him. She needs him. She would die without him…That’s what love is, isn’t it? Over the next twenty-four hours (and two years), everything that Enola thinks she knows is about to unravel, and she has to think again about how she sees love, family, and friendship and—most importantly—herself. With notes of Fleabag & I May Destroy You but with the sparseness and emotional accuracy of writers like Ali Smith and Lily King, What It’s Like In Words is a close examination of what it means to experience the intense emotional uncertainty of first love.
Eliza Moss
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