Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
£16.99
Author:
I J Kay
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780224093767
£16.99
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EAN: 9780224093767
Published: 2 Feb 2012
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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Few 350-page, first-person novels - even fewer contemporary British novels - are unputdownable. This is one of them.
- Irish Times
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.
- Guardian
This extraordinary and quite brilliant first novel describes a life that is bumping along at the very bottom... The author manages to present the fragments as a funny, charming, beautiful whole.
- The Times
An astonishingly enjoyable debut ... Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way.
- Observer
Mountains of the Moon is a riveting novel, both disturbing and entertaining, with twisted low-life chracters rivalling any created by Martin Amis or Nicola Barker.
- Spectator
The writing is highly coloured though carefully controlled, full of pain with a strange backwash of joy.
- New Statesman
A valorous and magnificent novel.
- Samantha Harvey
The most original book I have read for quite a long time.
- Observer
[S]incere, resolute... [A] harsh, unstinting story.
- Literary Review
A startling first novel, exhilarating though full of pain and damage.
- Observer
A challenging, compelling book.
- The Times
Remarkable story.
- Times Literary Supplement
[A] startling debut.
- GQ
Mountains of the Moon is I. J. Kay's debut novel.
