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Maria In The Moon

Maria In The Moon

Author(s): Louise Beech

Location(s): Hull

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 2007

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Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can’t remember everything. She can’t remember her ninth year. She can’t remember when her insomnia started. And she can’t remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria.

With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges… and changes everything.

Dark, poignant and deeply moving, Maria in the Moon is an examination of the nature of memory and truth, and the defences we build to protect ourselves, when we can no longer hide…

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Author: tripfiction

We have written before about the excellent writing and story-telling skills that Louise Beech offers her readers, often with quite a personal slant. This one is no exception. Being a Hull resident, she has...

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