Mountains of the Moon

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'A wonderful voice- funny and fragile, innocent, knowing, tender and tough. I have never encountered another like it ... there is nothing simplistic about this bold, unsettling, uplifting novel. Read it. Then read it again' Clare Allan, Guardian 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.

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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 -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * New Statesman *
A brilliant and sad book The funniest book Ive read in years. -- Olivia Laing * New Statesman, Book of the Year *
A valorous and magnificent novel * Samantha Harvey *
Compelling -- Erica Wagner * The Times *
An astonishingly enjoyable debut ... Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way -- Ophelia Field * Observer *

Author Bio

Mountains of the Moon is I. J. Kay's debut novel.