Mountains of the Moon

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A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past.

Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Moon is the tragic account of a broken life, but, against all expectation, it amounts to something utterly beautiful.

A beautiful, strange novel about drab, dangerous lives. Kay's imagination is exuberant, her language musical and her narrative both fantastically intricate and structurally sound
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman

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Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/02/2013
ISBN: 9780099554738
Length: 368 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
Weight: 256g
Price: £15.99

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A beautiful, strange novel about drab, dangerous lives. Kay's imagination is exuberant, her language musical and her narrative both fantastically intricate and structurally sound

A brilliant and sad book… The funniest book I’ve read in years.

I think this will one day be considered a classic. It’s the gritty but tender tale of a damaged life, with prose that’s deft, quick and spirited, a plot that pulls like a freight train, and one of the best child narrators you’ll ever encounter

A valorous and magnificent novel

Compelling

An astonishingly enjoyable debut ... Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way

Few 350-page, first-person novels - even fewer contemporary British novels - are unputdownable. This is one of them

A startling debut

Sincere, resolute

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