The Moonlight Market

Name: The Moonlight Market
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanne Harris
ISBN: 9781668117835

Author: Joanne Harris

Narrator: Joanne Harris

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 07/02/2024

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Contemporary

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel of two colliding worlds.

Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman sipping champagne in St. Pancras station; a cloud of moths, disturbed, taking flight across the sky.

But with each photo, he captures something unseen by the eye, and as each negative develops—revealing a person he hadn’t met, a danger he hadn’t noticed, and a world he hadn’t seen—he is drawn further into a hidden war. One which he has been drawn into many times before...and every time, had his memories of the truth, and of the woman he loves, stolen from him.

As Tom pieces fragments of the truth together, he realizes he must weave through the war and fight his own battle: both for the woman he loves, and for himself.

About Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (MBE) was born in Barnsley in 1964 to a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat. Her books are now published in over fifty countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science. She works from a shed in her garden and lives with her husband and daughter in a little wood in Yorkshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katharine on July 31, 2024

Joanne Harris’s writing is so beautiful - she is incredible at crafting stories and makes you feel like you are falling into a world of dreams and fairytales. But I’m unfortunately giving this book two stars because I couldn’t stand Tom, the main character. He is so irritatingly stubborn and stupidl......more

Goodreads review by Quirine on September 17, 2024

2.5 stars - very meh! The atmosphere at the start was beautiful but other than that the obnoxiousness (is that a word?) of the main character completely ruined this story for me. He was SO dumb and annoying and no one should have forgiven him in this story lol. It is still unclear to me why he was s......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on February 13, 2025

Actual rating 3.5.5 stars. Tom sees the city through his camera lens and with each photo he takes he starts to uncover beings living between the cracks of humanity. They come at sunrise or sunset and have their own clans, their own customs, their own wars. Tom falls in love and forgets them again and......more

Goodreads review by Selena on July 04, 2024

For me, this was a much-needed slice of dreamy, escapist fantasy. Tom's life drifts along in a rather dull and isolated bubble, working in a quiet London photography shop. Until Vanessa walks in and buys one of his photographs, completely stealing Tom's heart. Mystery figures start to appear in his......more

Goodreads review by Books0507_Ashley on June 19, 2024

The Moonlight Market is not a long book, just short of 300 pages I was able to read this in two sittings. I really enjoyed the modern take on a fairy-tale story, the take on the Butterfly's and Moths was really fascinating and I enjoyed reading the contrast between the two. I found Tom to be a littl......more

Quotes

"Harris does an outstanding job of making this world come alive. She imparts her fondness for the characters and the intriguing world she has created. There are four main characters and an extensive group of supporting characters, and she has a clear vision of each of them. Like all good storytellers, Harris expresses the emotions of the characters without being overly dramatic."