Description
After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets.
After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and 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.
Author: I. J. Kay
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.39w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780143123453
ISBN10: 0143123459
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Thrillers | Psychological
After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and 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.
Author: I. J. Kay
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.39w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780143123453
ISBN10: 0143123459
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Thrillers | Psychological
About the Author
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.