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    Listen to the Moon
    Listen to the Moon
    Listen to the Moon
    Audiobook9 hours

    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…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 25, 2014
    ISBN9780007591985
    Listen to the Moon
    Author

    Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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    • 5/5
      This 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.