The Half Moon
A deeply moving story about love, marriage and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author
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A beautiful, unforgettable story of love and second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace, Hello Beautiful and Tom Lake.
'She manages to find the extraordinary grace in our achingly ordinary world'
NEW YORK TIMES
'One of my favourite authors'
FLORENCE KNAPP
'Her insights into the matters of the heart have atonishing delicacy'
VOGUE
‘A fearless writer’
LISA TADDEO
'This kind of fiction is a gift'
ANN NAPOLITANO
'I could not put this book down'
MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER
‘Compelling, touching, exquisitely crafted’
LIANE MORIARTY
'A healing, delicate and relatable story about the real heartbreaks of life'
CLAIRE DAVERLEY
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Winter, upstate New York. Outside the Half Moon bar, a blizzard is raging. Inside, bartender Malcolm and his wife Jess are coming face to face for the first time in four months.
Malcolm never understood why Jess packed up and left him suddenly, without explanation. Meanwhile, Jess always loved Malcolm, but when forced to choose between her husband’s dreams and her desire to have a family, she found herself slipping away.
Now, trapped in the empty bar as the snow piles up outside, they must confront the secrets and small betrayals that brought their marriage to this point.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Keane (Ask Again, Yes) takes a nuanced look at a troubled marriage during a fraught week of blizzards and power outages in a predominantly Irish New York City suburb. "Handsome and charming" Malcolm Gephardt, 45, finally recognizes that "middle age is looming," and that the Half Moon, the bar he owns, is in dire straits. His wife, Jess, an attorney, left him several months earlier, having been worn out by seven years of failed fertility treatments and discouraged by Malcolm's refusal to include her in financial decisions. He has held out hope that Jess will come back, until he learns she's involved with a fellow lawyer who has three young children. Keane surrounds her main characters with a crew of nosy people who regularly check in on Malcolm ("part of him suspected these friends, grown men, all in their mid-forties, loved the excuse to leave their families on a Saturday afternoon"), and livens the proceedings with juicy subplots about a shady loan with terms enforced by even shadier goons, the mysterious disappearance of a bar patron, and Malcolm's mother, who, unbeknownst to Malcolm, has been carrying on an affair with the neighbor who plows her driveway. Keane pulls off a quiet, contemplative novel about the dwindling time for second chances.
