The Beach at Night is a children's novel written by Italian writer Elena Ferrante.

The Mean Beach Attendant of Sunset attempts to steal all her words, the Fire tries to burn her, and the Sea refuses to answer her prayers.

According to Alex O’Connell, writing for The Times, it has a "complex girl-doll heroine",[1] In the Sydney Morning Herald, the novel was called an "unnerving little gem.

They also argue that the translation of the book includes an expletive, instead of a more child-appropriate word found in the original.

[3] Nora Krug, writing for the Washington Post, notices that the book deals with difficult topics: abandonment, jealousy, death by drowning and fire, but also that "Celina's tale is powerfully told and complex".