Mountains of the Moon: A Novel
After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets.

After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and carries a past full of secrets: a childhood marked by the violence and madness of her parents, followed by a reckless adolescence. From abandoned psychiatric hospitals to Edwardian-themed casinos, from a brief first love to the company of criminals, Lulu has spent her youth in an ever-shifting landscape of deceit and survival.

But when she’s awarded an unexpected settlement claim after prison, she travels to the landscape of her childhood imagination, the central African range known as the Mountains of the Moon.There, in the region’s stark beauty, she attempts to piece together the fragments of her battered psyche.

Told in multilayered, hallucinatory flashbacks, Mountains of the Moon traces a traumatic youth and explores the journey of a young woman trying to transform a broken life into something beautiful. This dazzling novel from a distinctive new voice is sure to garner the attention of critics and readers alike.
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Mountains of the Moon: A Novel
After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets.

After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and carries a past full of secrets: a childhood marked by the violence and madness of her parents, followed by a reckless adolescence. From abandoned psychiatric hospitals to Edwardian-themed casinos, from a brief first love to the company of criminals, Lulu has spent her youth in an ever-shifting landscape of deceit and survival.

But when she’s awarded an unexpected settlement claim after prison, she travels to the landscape of her childhood imagination, the central African range known as the Mountains of the Moon.There, in the region’s stark beauty, she attempts to piece together the fragments of her battered psyche.

Told in multilayered, hallucinatory flashbacks, Mountains of the Moon traces a traumatic youth and explores the journey of a young woman trying to transform a broken life into something beautiful. This dazzling novel from a distinctive new voice is sure to garner the attention of critics and readers alike.
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Mountains of the Moon: A Novel

Mountains of the Moon: A Novel

by I. J. Kay
Mountains of the Moon: A Novel

Mountains of the Moon: A Novel

by I. J. Kay

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Overview

After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets.

After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and carries a past full of secrets: a childhood marked by the violence and madness of her parents, followed by a reckless adolescence. From abandoned psychiatric hospitals to Edwardian-themed casinos, from a brief first love to the company of criminals, Lulu has spent her youth in an ever-shifting landscape of deceit and survival.

But when she’s awarded an unexpected settlement claim after prison, she travels to the landscape of her childhood imagination, the central African range known as the Mountains of the Moon.There, in the region’s stark beauty, she attempts to piece together the fragments of her battered psyche.

Told in multilayered, hallucinatory flashbacks, Mountains of the Moon traces a traumatic youth and explores the journey of a young woman trying to transform a broken life into something beautiful. This dazzling novel from a distinctive new voice is sure to garner the attention of critics and readers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143123453
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/25/2013
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

I. J. Kay has lived in West Africa and the United Kingdom, where she currently travels the waterways by houseboat. She holds an MA in creative writing. This is her first novel.

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“An astonishingly enjoyable debut novel . . . The trust that our resourceful heroine will always survive is what allows us to take pleasure in her ingenious ways of doing so; the same pleasure, of watching a female victim turn the tables on her persecutors, which has made the Stieg Larsson trilogy so popular. There are thriller elements that add suspense to this very literary fiction. . . . Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way.” —The Observer (London)

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