Playing with the Moon

In an English coastal village, two women, divided by decades, each haunted by their own tragedies, find themselves drawn together by a mysterious wartime death.

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. Walking on the beach one day, they unearth the remains of an African-American GI who seemingly drowned during a wartime exercise, half a century before. Something about the story doesn’t add up. Increasingly preoccupied with the dead soldier’s fate, Minna befriends an elderly woman, Felix, who lived in the village during the war. Why is Felix so reluctant to tell Minna the truth about the GI and his death?

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.

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.