Mountains of the Moon
A Novel
After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets.
After Louise Adler (Lulu) is released, with only a new alias to rebuild her life, she works a series of dead-end jobs and carries a past full of secrets: a childhood marked by the violence and madness of her parents, followed by a reckless adolescence. From abandoned psychiatric hospitals to Edwardian-themed casinos, from a brief first love to the company of criminals, Lulu has spent her youth in an ever-shifting landscape of deceit and survival.
But when she’s awarded an unexpected settlement claim after prison, she travels to the landscape of her childhood imagination, the central African range…
I. J. Kay has lived in West Africa and the United Kingdom, where she currently travels the waterways by houseboat. She holds an MA in creative writing.
