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For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver: Beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce and reconciliation as an estranged couple go on a road trip to uncover a family mystery.

‘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
‘Kathleen is a wonderful character, spiky and obstinate, but also vulnerable and big-hearted’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
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It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same he is …

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 over two thousand miles in a pick-up, through forests, over mountains and into service stations, an alluring 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 for this once estranged couple begins to emerge.

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; and of learning to live and love in a completely new way.

‘Delicately observed, forceful and moving, this story of love, family bonds and the agony of loss is utterly absorbing – and so beautifully written’ LUCY ATKINS

‘A beautifully imagined portrait…a melancholy, meditative and simply gorgeously written story about two people, and enduring love’ WOMAN AND HOME

‘A truly divine book, I loved both its simplicity and depth’ PRIMA book of the month

‘A road trip into the human heart. Generously alive’ FRANCIS SPUFFORD

‘Fierce, tragic, lyrical. I just loved it’ CLAIRE FULLER

Publisher Review

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 * Reminds me of Olive Kitteridge. And I loved the ending, how the author avoids turning it into a mystery whodunnit while still harnessing all the gripping momentum of one * SUSAN ELDERKIN * Delicately observed, forceful and moving, this story of love, family bonds and the agony of loss is utterly absorbing – and so beautifully written * LUCY ATKINS * A road trip with heart…a truly divine book, I loved both its simplicity and depth * PRIMA Book of the Month * A beautifully imagined portrait…a melancholy, meditative and simply gorgeous written story about two people, and enduring love * WOMAN AND HOME *