'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....