Twelve Moons: The most beautiful and inspiring memoir you’ll read

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A delicately-handled, lyrical exploration of divorce, recovery of self and fierce maternal devotion. Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller through dark times, and companion through joyful ones and even when the sky is wreathed in cloud, the moon is still felt in the pull of the tides.

Caro’s world revolves around caring for her eldest, who is autistic and recovering from an illness which has temporarily robbed her of the use of her legs. The presentation of the book is absolutely stunning, both the cover artwork and title are beautiful. Perhaps this is the point, and that is what Giles is trying to step away from, but every time she brought him up it felt like the antithesis to the feminine strength and independence the book was meant to be cheerleading.

Twelve Moons is one of those stories - a book about finding yourself, your voice and a sense that even in the dark of the night, we are never truly alone. The fact that there was still this moping, "pity me" tone to her writing made me want to scream and shake her. Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One.

Every now and again I will be stopped in my tracks by a full moon, crisply white against the night sky, sometimes so big it inspires awe before I quickly get on with what it was I was doing.Twelve Moons is one of those stories – a book about finding yourself, your voice and a sense that even in the dark of the night, we are never truly alone. Giles also struggles with the latter and her writing is honest, sad and funny as what must be an exhausting and draining life is explored.

It was a gentle, moving and beautifully written account of a woman and mother on the margins, by virtue of the familial circumstances in which she found herself. So I loved the idea of this book, and my 2 stars are for the lovely portrayal of Northumberland and the quality of the nature writing. Yet we see, she is gravity to the four girls in orbit around her, her own anxiety waxing and waning over the months, as the landscape around them and the turn of the seasons become her refuge.It was funny to read the description of jesmond - I could tell exactly where she was, it's really fun when a book includes a place you know.

This line initially made me feel all the anger I had experienced with education systems but also a sense of it being a uniquely female burden of blame. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.Considering the moon phases over the course of the year is something I had never consciously done before. Descriptions of the natural world permeate the novel, charting the ebbs and flows of the family’s life across a whole year.