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|title=Playing With The Moon

|author=Eliza Graham

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=256

|publisher=Macmillan New Writing

|date=June 2007

|isbn=978-0230528871

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Minna and Tom lost their baby son in a road accident only a few months ago. Needing isolation they rent a house on the Dorset coast and try to come to terms with Benjamin's death and rebuild their marriage. Minna is actually planning to tell Tom that their marriage is over when they find a human skeleton partly buried in the sand. Private Lew Campbell, a black American GI, seems to have drowned in a wartime exercise in the cove some sixty years before.

It's a few days now since I finished the book but the characters are still vividly alive in my mind. I find myself wondering about them and thinking about how they all needed to let go of the past - Minna, her son and Felix her memories - before they could move on. I've tried too to work out how Eliza Graham produced such a strong story in a relatively short novel. There's little in the way of literary artifice and just one coincidence which I thought was slightly overworked. Apart from that it's just superlative writing.

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