The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel

A poignant novel of love, loss, and remembrance set against the backdrop of WWII. Ninety-two-year-old Henry Budge escapes a rehab facility to return to France for the 70th D-Day observance. Haunted by a decades-old grief, he seeks to rekindle memories of Élodie Bedier, a French Resistance fighter he loved during the war.

Reliving his wartime experiences, Henry confronts the past: his parachute jump into Normandy, his love affair with Élodie, fighting alongside the Resistance, and a fateful ...