Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

TWELVE MOONS is a memoir that follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the Northumberland skies. Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters, and is bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness, and single motherhood. The moon becomes her fellow traveler through dark times and companion through joyful ones, and the book follows the lunar calendar, each chapter sharing a month and a moon. It is a story steeped in nature and landscape, and shows how love will flourish if we can find a space for ourselves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 19 January 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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. She is at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness, and the challenges of single motherhood, she has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her.

Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveler 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.

TWELVE MOONS follows the lunar calendar, each chapter sharing a month and a moon, and shows the simmering power that lies in our often hidden daily lives. A dazzlingly honest memoir that while never turning away from the awkward truths of life, also shows how love will flourish if we can only find a space for ourselves.

Set against windswept beaches and ancient hills, this is a story steeped in nature and landscape. Since our earliest days, mankind has looked up at the moon and seen a story reflected back. 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.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 223 x 143 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008543235