Author:Judy Astley
If you like Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, you will love this brilliantly funny romantic comedy buzzing with speculation and scandal from bestselling author Judy Astley.
"Light, fast and funny...By the time you turn the last page you'll never be able to look your neighbour in the eye again" - PRIMA
"A jaunty woman's read" - DAILY MAIL
"Judy Astley's books are always a joy to read." -- ***** Reader review
"Always look forward to reading this author's books. Never disappointed. They make me smile. My only trouble is when I finish it...There are no more to read as I've read them all!" -- ***** Reader review
"Judy Astley is a brilliant writer, you get lost in her books. They are all brilliant in my opinion." -- ***** Reader review
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SCANDALOUS SECRETS SET A PEACEFUL VILLAGE ALIGHT...
It was Heather's silver wedding anniversary. But this important milestone did not relate to her marriage to Tom, her often-absent airline pilot husband and father of their two teenage children. It was for her first marriage - a wildly romantic, secret affair, when, at 16, she and Iain - twelve years her senior and the heir to a Scottish baronetcy - had eloped immediately after her final school speech day.
The marriage had not lasted twenty-five weeks, let alone years and it was As If It Never Happened.
But secrets have a habit of coming out, and when a film crew arrives in the attractive Thamesside village where Heather and Tom live, Heather is horrified to find her ex-husband amongst them.
As Heather and Iain meet again, many secrets jostle to be revealed, including Tom's own highly secret life. Heather, her daughter Kate and her mother Delia are all forced to reveal things which they never thought would need to be revealed, and their peaceful Oxfordshire village community rocks with speculation and scandal...
'Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy - there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is an original and brilliant first work of fiction'
—— Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America'Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is a pitch-perfect debut by a fine young novelist. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel'
—— Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain'Deftly welding magic realism with social satire, Bakopoulos captures the dark side of the working-class dream'
—— New York Times'A delightful debut novel. In it a combination of different ingredients, including raw literary talent and a sprinkling of magical realism, form the kind of story that I suspect people will be talking about in book clubs and sharing with neighbors. . . clever, unusual and exciting'
—— Washington PostPerhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm
—— NewsweekOutrageously hilarious
—— Saturday Review of BooksAccessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist—these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. It is time to rediscover them
—— Judith Thurman, biographer of Colette'Wilson has always been a brilliant storyteller, who - unlike many of his no less famous contemporaries - is incapable of ever writing a boring line... Masterly... Always enthralling... Here is a book one races through, so eager is one to know what happens next... In [Wilson's] hands, as in James's, each turn of the screw succeeds in intensifying the reader's unease'
—— Francis King , Literary Review
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