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Mountains of the Moon
  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099554738
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

Mountains of the Moon

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'A wonderful voice: funny and fragile, innocent, knowing, tender and tough. I have never encountered another like it ... there is nothing simplistic about this bold, unsettling, uplifting novel. Read it. Then read it again' Clare Allan, Guardian

A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past.

Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Moon is the tragic account of a broken life, but, against all expectation, it amounts to something utterly beautiful.
  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099554738
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

I J Kay

Mountains of the Moon is I. J. Kay's debut novel.
IJK

Praise for Mountains of the Moon

A beautiful, strange novel about drab, dangerous lives. Kay's imagination is exuberant, her language musical and her narrative both fantastically intricate and structurally sound

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman

A brilliant and sad book… The funniest book I’ve read in years.

Olivia Laing, New Statesman, Book of the Year

I think this will one day be considered a classic. It’s the gritty but tender tale of a damaged life, with prose that’s deft, quick and spirited, a plot that pulls like a freight train, and one of the best child narrators you’ll ever encounter

Samantha Harvey, author of ORBITAL, Week

A valorous and magnificent novel

Samantha Harvey

Compelling

Erica Wagner, The Times

An astonishingly enjoyable debut ... Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way

Ophelia Field, Observer

Few 350-page, first-person novels - even fewer contemporary British novels - are unputdownable. This is one of them

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

A startling debut

GQ

Sincere, resolute

Jonathan Barnes, Literary Review

This extraordinary and quite brilliant first novel describes a life that is bumping along the very bottom...The writing is wonderfully inventive, encompassing grim reality and wild, romantic fantasy, and the true magic lies in the way the author manages to present the fragments as a funny, charming, beautiful whole

Kate Saunders, The Times

Remarkable story

TLS

Riverting ... both disturbing and entertaining, with twisted low-life chracters rivalling any created by Martin Amis or Nicola Barker

Leyla Sanai, Spectator

The most original book I have read for quite a long time

Observer

Sounds like a must-read

Reading Matters

Utterly remarkable…sad in its depth, but delightful on the shimmering surface… It might only be February, but there's going to need to be some strong competition in the months to come if this doesn't end up being my book of the year

The Bookbag

A wonderful survivor’s story… It’s excellent

Peter Murchie, British Journal of General Practice