LoveReading Says
An emotionally astute and eloquent tale of love, loss, and family as estranged parents take a road trip across Canada. Oh how I love the way Sarah Leipciger writes, her debut The Mountain Can Wait spoke to my soul, she is able to open your eyes and encourages thoughts to enter uncharted territory. While sparking new feelings, her words are so wonderfully easy to read, they fall into place, seemingly simple yet incredibly powerful. The two main characters in Moon Road haven’t spoken to each other for 19 years, they come together to take a road trip and attempt to solve a family mystery. Kathleen and Yannick have become a part of me, so beautifully described I travelled not just beside, but inside them. Prepare for emotions to be sliced and stitched back together as this is a devastating yet also somehow comforting novel. I was intrigued, I was surprised, I cried. Moon Road is fiercely thought-provoking and so incredibly intimate and penetrating it has joined our LoveReading Star Books and is featured as a Liz Pick of the Month. Highly recommended.
Liz Robinson
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Moon Road Synopsis
A mesmeric portrait of a decades-long marriage, wrapped in a powerful family mystery - for fans of ELIZABETH STROUT and BARBARA KINGSOLVER
'A darker, gruffer Elizabeth Strout' The Times
'Sarah Leipciger is a consummate storyteller' Rachel Joyce
'Tough, tender, wonderful' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre
'A sucker-punch of a novel' Grazia
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Kathleen and Yannick have not spoken for nineteen years, not since what happened with their daughter.
Now, there's unexpected news from the other side of the country, and the call for a road trip they can only make together.
As they rattle for hundreds of miles in a pick-up, through forests, over mountains and into service stations, a heartbreaking history reveals itself: of fierce love, complicated ex-wives and headstrong children, and of a unique bond that never really went away.
As they drive, argue, gossip and reminisce, an unexpected future begins to emerge.
Gripping, emotional, witty: MOON ROAD captures the wonder and grief of watching our children grow up; of recovering from long buried pain, and rediscovering those closest to us when we think we know all there is to know.
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EVERYONE IS GRIPPED BY MOON ROAD:
'Delicately observed, forceful and moving' Lucy Atkins
'Beautifully imagined. Simply gorgeous' Woman & Home
'A truly divine book' Prima book of the month
'Generously alive' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
'Fierce, tragic, lyrical. One of my books of the year' CLAIRE FULLER
'This book will win a prize' READER
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804994467 |
| Publication date: |
17th April 2025 |
| Author: |
Sarah Leipciger |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books an imprint of Transworld |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
368 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Family Drama
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Sarah Leipciger Press Reviews
A deeply humane story by one of my favourite writers. Tough, tender, wonderful - JOANNA QUINN, author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE
A whip-smart take on the classic road trip, with a compulsive bread-crumb plot, Moon Road is at once a candid portrait of ageing, an astute primer on parenting, and a masterful novel of love, loss, and navigating life's darkest moments - C.S. RICHARDSON, author of ALL THE COLOUR IN THE WORLD
A road trip into the human heart, wise and tough and generously alive, tracing through Kathleen and Yannick’s journey the slow alchemy by which loss tears people apart, and then sometimes brings them back together again - FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Read this! A love story, a tragedy, a road trip. Some of the best writing you'll read. Definitely one of my contenders for Books of the Year - CLAIRE FULLER
A brilliant, compassionate novel that unflinchingly lays bare what we can’t know about those we love and what we can’t forget. Moon Road is self-assured, keenly-observant, heart-wrenching storytelling. Every page is a delight, leading to an ending that left me absolutely breathless. Beautiful, clever, captivating. - SHELLEY READ, author of GO AS A RIVER
Moon Road is a story that confronts what it really means to be human—it’s about how love still burns after a long and hard time, about the unexpected ways that sadness lives within us, about longing for a time in life when something could still change. This book is intimate and tender in some ways, but so fierce and full in others—the landscapes, the tension of an estranged couple on a road trip, the mystery of a missing daughter. I just couldn’t put it down. Sarah Leipciger has written a brilliant, beautiful novel I’ll remember forever - ASHLEY AUDRAIN, author of THE PUSH
The kind of novel that will take over your life. Absorbing and transporting - CLAIRE CAMERON
