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    Mountains of the Moon: A Novel
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    Mountains of the Moon: A Novel

    Written by I. J. Kay

    Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre

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    About this audiobook

    A highly original novel about a young woman's journey from shattered youth to self-discovery

    After ten years in a London prison, Louise Adler (Lulu) is released with only a new alias to rebuild her life. Working a series of dead-end jobs, she 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2012
    ISBN9781101566305
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    Mountains of the Moon: A Novel
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    I. J. Kay

    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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    • 5/5
      Having just finished this book it is going to get 5 stars before the feeling begins to fade. Touched some deep places in the soul and was a real adventure building the story from the fragments presented from different times and places. Not poetry but with an almost-poetry feel. Somehow the Wasteland came to mind - "These fragments I have shored against my ruin" - and when I read it again I might try reading it out loud.
    • 3/5
      I'd write a review if I had a clue what this book was about. it is beautifully written, but so British it is almost like reading another language. the narrator, known as Lulu, Kim, Catherine, Mitten, etc. Tells the disjointed story of her dysfunctional family from her point of view as she grows.