Book description
Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and husband Tom retreat to an
isolated village on the Dorset coast, hoping to find the solitude that
will allow them to cope with their loss and rebuild their foundering
marriage. Walking on the beach one day, they unearth a human skeleton.
It is a discovery which will plunge Minna into a mystery which will
consume her for months to come.
The remains are soon identified as those of Private Lew Campbell, a
black American GI who, it seems, drowned during a wartime exercise in
the area half a century before. Growing increasingly preoccupied with
the dead soldier’s fate, Minna befriends a melancholy elderly woman,
Felix, who lived in the village during the war. As Minna coaxes Felix’s
story from her, it becomes clear that the old woman knows more about the
dead GI than she initially let on.
Playing with the Moon
is an unforgettable novel of memory and loss, about the legacy of war,
and the need to reconcile ourselves to our past in order to live with
the present. Felix’s final shocking confession allows her to come to
terms with an event that has cast a shadow over her life, and helps
Minna to begin to accept her own loss. Elizabeth Graham works as a PR
consultant and lives in Oxfordshire.
