Listen to the Moon

· HarperCollins UK
4.2
20 reviews
Ebook
448
Pages

About this ebook

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...

Ratings and reviews

4.2
20 reviews
saierah chowdhury
June 10, 2018
LOVED IT!!! 5 stars for sure!! I really loved the story. I feel out of ALL of the Michael Morpurgo books, this is the best I've read so far from him. In some bits it's really sad, but it's still fantastic! It's really heart-touching near the end especially. Totally Recommended by Me! ❤❤
Jamia Begum
February 8, 2024
love it I would like to buy it but I don't have that much money I really really want that book I wish it was for free
Morgan Hodgson
January 2, 2023
I have read this book in school around the year 2014 and it was amazing, so I am rereading it and it is still absolutely amazing!

About the author

Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children, and has sold more than 35 million books around the world. He has written more than 150 novels and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Blue Peter Book Award, while several of his books have been adapted for stage and screen, including the global theatrical phenomenon War Horse. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005, and founded the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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