Half Moon Lake

Kirsten Alexander

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Bantam
02 January 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Inspired by a real case, Half Moon Lake is a captivating historical novel set in America's Deep South about a lost boy - and the two mothers who both seek to claim him.

'They said he was their boy. And so he was...'

In 1913, on a summer’s day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns.

The boy’s mysterious disappearance from the family’s lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair.

Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp.

But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports’ own friends, take sides.

As the tramp’s kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they’d ever dreamed...

Half Moon Lake is Kirsten Alexander’s compelling debut novel, about the parent-child bond, identity, and what it means to be part of a family.

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By: Kirsten Alexander
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9780143792062
ISBN 10: 0143792067
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kirsten Alexander was born in San Francisco, raised in Brisbane, and now lives in Melbourne with her partner and two sons. Half Moon Lake is her first published novel.

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Kirsten Alexander

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