Listen to the Moon
Written by Michael Morpurgo
Narrated by Mike Grady and Laurence Bouvard
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller.
May, 1915.
Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy.
Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even – as some islanders suggest – a German spy…?
Only one thing is for sure: she loves music and moonlight, and it is when she listens to the gramophone that the glimmers of the girl she once was begin to appear.
WW1 is raging, suspicion and fear are growing, and Alfie and Lucy are ever more under threat. But as we begin to see the story of Merry, a girl boarding a great ship for a perilous journey across the ocean, another melody enters the great symphony – and the music begins to resolve…
A beautiful tour de force of family, love, war and forgiveness, this is a major new novel from the author of PRIVATE PEACEFUL – in which what was once lost may sometimes be found, washed up again on the shore…
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
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Reviews for Listen to the Moon
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a beautifully written and life-affirming story as Michael Morpurgo's novels frequently are. Like Why the Whales Came and Wreck of the Zanzibar, it is set in the beautiful Scilly Isles off the coast of Cornwall, more specifically in and around one of the smallest inhabited islands in the group, Bryher, during the First World War. A young girl is found seemingly abandoned on the uninhabited island of St Helens by two fishermen Jim Wheatcroft and his son Alfie, whom they christen Lucy after an initial word she utters. The story runs on two time streams, as Lucy settles into life with the Wheatcrofts but also faces prejudice and hostility from other islanders in the atmosphere of war hysteria prevailing in 1915. The other time stream shows how Lucy came to be abandoned on St Helens and her struggles to survive there until she is found. The story covers themes of tolerance, confronting mindless prejudice and the twisted version of patriotism that can become war hysteria, and how families can adopt newcomers and offer them unconditional love and shelter. No spoilers, but there is a beautiful symmetry about the plot and bittersweet endings to some of the plot threads that I liked. A lovely read.