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    Playing with the Moon
    Playing with the Moon
    Playing with the Moon
    Audiobook10 hours

    Playing with the Moon

    Written by Eliza Graham

    Narrated by Patricia Gallimore

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    About this audiobook

    Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and husband Tom retreat to an isolated village on the Dorset coast, hoping to find the solitude that will allow them to cope with their loss and rebuild their foundering marriage. Walking on the beach one day, they unearth a human skeleton. It is a discovery which will plunge Minna into a mystery which will consume her for months to come.

    The remains are soon identified as those of Private Lew Campbell, a black American GI who, it seems, drowned during a wartime exercise in the area half a century before. Growing increasingly preoccupied with the dead soldier’s fate, Minna befriends a melancholy elderly woman, Felix, who lived in the village during the war. As Minna coaxes Felix’s story from her, it becomes clear that the old woman knows more about the dead GI than she initially let on.

    Playing with the Moon is an unforgettable novel of memory and loss, about the legacy of war, and the need to reconcile ourselves to our past in order to live with the present. Felix’s final shocking confession allows her to come to terms with an event that has cast a shadow over her life, and helps Minna to begin to accept her own loss.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateMay 22, 2014
    ISBN9781447260066
    Playing with the Moon
    Author

    Eliza Graham

    Eliza Graham spent science lessons reading Jean Plaidy novels behind the textbooks, sitting at the back of the classroom. In English and history lessons, however, she sat right at the front, hanging on to every word. In the school holidays she visited the public library multiple times a day. At Oxford University she read English literature on a course that regarded anything post-1930 as too modern to be included. She retains a love of Victorian novels. Eliza lives in an ancient village in the Oxfordshire countryside with her family. Her interests (still) mainly revolve around reading, but she also enjoys walking in the downland country around her home. Find out more about Eliza on her website: www.elizagrahamauthor.com, Facebook: @ElizaGrahamUK or Twitter: @eliza_graham.

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