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Title: Maria in the Moon

Author: Louise Beech

Narrator: Prendergast Colleen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

'Long ago my beloved Nanny Eve chose my name. Then one day she stopped calling me it. I try now to remember why, but I just can't.'

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....

Members Reviews:

Stunning

âWhen you give like that, you deserve whatever makes your heart wholeâ

The floods of 2007 are ingrained in my mind. I remember watching Look North with Harry Gration showing the images of Sheffield and the surrounding area devastated by Mother Nature and calls from work colleagues stranded at home unable to get to Leeds. I didnât catch much of the national coverage so I was never fully aware of the full extent of what had happened.

Maria In The Moon centres around the floods that hit Hull, the authorâs hometownâwell city. But itâs not about the floods in the main. Itâs about Catherine, a woman who canât stop listening to other peopleâs problems. Sheâs drawn to care-lines when she has her own relationships that need sorting out.

The writing totally surrounded me. I felt I was there in Hull, I was Catherine whilst my own life in Leeds continued around me as I read. I felt what she felt.

I thought the writing in How To Be Brave was beautiful but Ms Beech has honed her talent in this one. Where else would you read a description of âThe draught from the open door kissed my bare anklesâ? I felt my ankles shiver as I read that sentence.

âMaria In The Moonâ is an emotional charged read and I defy anyone not to feel a tug of the heartstrings as Catherineâs story reaches its climax. I cried as the book came to a close. But donât be mistaken, amongst all the emotion and angst of Catherineâs life and those she listens to on the phone, thereâs suspense but thatâs all Iâm going to say #nospoiler. The book has been labelled as âDark Dramaâ and it is definitely dark and dramatic.

âItâs not love unless it hurtsâ

Louise Beech is rapidly becoming one of the few authors who will draw me out of the dark world of crime fiction into her own unique genre of story telling. I adore her writing style! I now have to shoehorn in âThe Mountain In My Shoeâ into my reading schedule!!

A big thanks to Orenda Books for my copy of Maria In The Moon.

My first Louise Beech novel but not my last

Iâve been wanting to read a novel written by Louise Beech for a little while now. I have to admit to being a little put off in the past as her novels, despite being classed as psychological thrillers, they tend to have words like moving or beautiful attached to them. So, cards on the table, Iâm not a reader who would usually seek a moving or beautiful novel. I want terrifying, gory, dark and gripping. Theyâre my kind of words.