Product Description

This book is the winner of The Andrea Badenoch Fiction Award. The passionate love affair between Spitfire pilot Bobby Harris and photographer's model Nina Tate lasts through the turmoil of World War Two, but is tested when his plane is shot down. Disfigured and wanting to hide from the world, Bobby retreats from Bohemian Soho to the empty house his grandfather has left him, a house haunted by the secrets of Bobby's childhood, where the mysteries of his past are gradually unravelled and he discovers that love is more than skin deep. Following on from "The Boy I Love", Marion Husband's highly acclaimed debut novel, "Paper Moon" explores the complexities of love and loyalty against a backdrop of a world transformed by war.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #373826 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 332 pages

Review
"This is an extraordinary novel. Beautifully controlled pacy prose carefully orchestrates the relationships of many well drawn characters and elegantly captures the atmosphere of England in 1946... This novel is perfect." MARGARET WILKINSON, NOVELIST"

About the Author
Winner of the first Andrea Badenoch Prize for Fiction in 2005 for Paper Moon, Marion graduated with distinction and won the Blackwell Prize for Best Performance for the MA in Creative Writing at Northumbria University in 2003. She currently teaches creative writing through the Open College of the Arts and has had poems and short stories published, most recently a pamphlet of poetry about her father and childhood entitled Service. Her first novel, The Boy I Love, was published in July 2005 to much critical acclaim. Marion is 43, married with two children and lives in the Tees Valley.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining, Unusual and gripping read
Unlike the reader below, I and my fellow book group readers found Marion Husband's second novel Paper Moon very readable and very entertaining and it provoked some very lively discussions within our group. I thought the sex scenes were very well written and moving and her evocation of post-war Britain was very convincing, all description being done with a light touch - one thing about Husband's writing - it is never boring. I also very much enjoyed the character development - especially that of the central character Bobby and liked the fact that characters from Husband's very wonderful The Boy I Love made a re-appearance in this book. I for one - as did my fellow readers in the group did find this a page turner, and we've decided to read Husband's next novel Say You Love Me later this year.

Very, very enjoyable read
I had just finished reading Husband's new novel Say You Love Me and wanted to read more of this author's work as I so enjoyed it, so bought Paper Moon and The Boy I Love. Paper Moon is a very absorbing, very moving story and one I really enjoyed. The main character Bobby Harris is fascinating and the England of 1946 Marion Husband evokes is very convincing. I have found all of Husband's novels to be very entertaining and having read one you want to read more - I hope her next novel isn't long coming.

An entertaining, absorbing and thought-provoking read
Paper Moon is a real page turner, a love story set just after the 2nd World War, following the lives of several very well drawn characters that I really cared about. I fell in love with the main character Bobby Harris, a complex and totally believeable character, and really empathised with him - the flash-back scenes were particularly moving. Nina, the second character, is fascinating. I read this novel in only a couple of days - needing to know how it would turn out, and wasn't disappointed with its ending. Even better than Marion Husband's first novel, The Boy I Love - which I would thoroughly recommend - I couldn't put it down.