Moon Road

A deeply humane story by one of my favourite writers. Tough, tender, wonderful

JOANNA QUINN, author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

A whip-smart take on the classic road trip, with a compulsive bread-crumb plot, Moon Road is at once a candid portrait of ageing, an astute primer on parenting, and a masterful novel of love, loss, and navigating life's darkest moments

C.S. RICHARDSON, author of ALL THE COLOUR IN THE WORLD

A road trip into the human heart, wise and tough and generously alive, tracing through Kathleen and Yannick’s journey the slow alchemy by which loss tears people apart, and then sometimes brings them back together again

FRANCIS SPUFFORD

Read this! A love story, a tragedy, a road trip. Some of the best writing you'll read. Definitely one of my contenders for Books of the Year

CLAIRE FULLER

A brilliant, compassionate novel that unflinchingly lays bare what we can’t know about those we love and what we can’t forget. Moon Road is self-assured, keenly-observant, heart-wrenching storytelling. Every page is a delight, leading to an ending that left me absolutely breathless. Beautiful, clever, captivating.

SHELLEY READ, author of GO AS A RIVER

Moon Road is a story that confronts what it really means to be human—it’s about how love still burns after a long and hard time, about the unexpected ways that sadness lives within us, about longing for a time in life when something could still change. This book is intimate and tender in some ways, but so fierce and full in others—the landscapes, the tension of an estranged couple on a road trip, the mystery of a missing daughter. I just couldn’t put it down. Sarah Leipciger has written a brilliant, beautiful novel I’ll remember forever

ASHLEY AUDRAIN, author of THE PUSH

The kind of novel that will take over your life. Absorbing and transporting

CLAIRE CAMERON

Reminds me of Olive Kitteridge. And I loved the ending, how the author avoids turning it into a mystery whodunnit while still harnessing all the gripping momentum of one

SUSAN ELDERKIN

Delicately observed, forceful and moving, this story of love, family bonds and the agony of loss is utterly absorbing - and so beautifully written

LUCY ATKINS

A road trip with heart…a truly divine book, I loved both its simplicity and depth

PRIMA Book of the Month

A beautifully imagined portrait…a melancholy, meditative and simply gorgeous written story about two people, and enduring love

WOMAN AND HOME

Kathleen is a wonderful character – spikey and obstinate, but also vulnerable and big-hearted

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Set against the monumental grandeur of the mountains, this is a deliberate slow burn, sensitive but unsentimental, with the central mystery secondary to the novel’s humane, memory-lingering exploration of life and hope in the shadow of loss

DAILY MAIL

Moon Road reads like a darker, gruffer blue-collar version of Elizabeth Strout’s novel, Oh, William! ... a slow-burn story about people who are learning to live with the unthinkable and the unknowable. Leipciger has written an intelligent, nuanced book that doesn’t let off fireworks or rely on catchy concepts. Instead, she places her faith in quiet observations about the contradictory elements that make up our relationship with ourselves and those we love. It is, refreshingly, a novel for grown-ups.

Johanna Thomas-Corr, THE TIMES

A deeply humane story by one of my favourite writers. Tough, tender, wonderful

JOANNA QUINN, author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

A whip-smart take on the classic road trip, with a compulsive bread-crumb plot, Moon Road is at once a candid portrait of ageing, an astute primer on parenting, and a masterful novel of love, loss, and navigating life's darkest moments

C.S. RICHARDSON, author of ALL THE COLOUR IN THE WORLD

A road trip into the human heart, wise and tough and generously alive, tracing through Kathleen and Yannick’s journey the slow alchemy by which loss tears people apart, and then sometimes brings them back together again

FRANCIS SPUFFORD

Read this! A love story, a tragedy, a road trip. Some of the best writing you'll read. Definitely one of my contenders for Books of the Year

CLAIRE FULLER

A brilliant, compassionate novel that unflinchingly lays bare what we can’t know about those we love and what we can’t forget. Moon Road is self-assured, keenly-observant, heart-wrenching storytelling. Every page is a delight, leading to an ending that left me absolutely breathless. Beautiful, clever, captivating.

SHELLEY READ, author of GO AS A RIVER

Moon Road is a story that confronts what it really means to be human—it’s about how love still burns after a long and hard time, about the unexpected ways that sadness lives within us, about longing for a time in life when something could still change. This book is intimate and tender in some ways, but so fierce and full in others—the landscapes, the tension of an estranged couple on a road trip, the mystery of a missing daughter. I just couldn’t put it down. Sarah Leipciger has written a brilliant, beautiful novel I’ll remember forever

ASHLEY AUDRAIN, author of THE PUSH

The kind of novel that will take over your life. Absorbing and transporting

CLAIRE CAMERON

Reminds me of Olive Kitteridge. And I loved the ending, how the author avoids turning it into a mystery whodunnit while still harnessing all the gripping momentum of one

SUSAN ELDERKIN

Delicately observed, forceful and moving, this story of love, family bonds and the agony of loss is utterly absorbing - and so beautifully written

LUCY ATKINS

A road trip with heart…a truly divine book, I loved both its simplicity and depth

PRIMA Book of the Month

A beautifully imagined portrait…a melancholy, meditative and simply gorgeous written story about two people, and enduring love

WOMAN AND HOME

Kathleen is a wonderful character – spikey and obstinate, but also vulnerable and big-hearted

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Set against the monumental grandeur of the mountains, this is a deliberate slow burn, sensitive but unsentimental, with the central mystery secondary to the novel’s humane, memory-lingering exploration of life and hope in the shadow of loss

DAILY MAIL

Moon Road reads like a darker, gruffer blue-collar version of Elizabeth Strout’s novel, Oh, William! ... a slow-burn story about people who are learning to live with the unthinkable and the unknowable. Leipciger has written an intelligent, nuanced book that doesn’t let off fireworks or rely on catchy concepts. Instead, she places her faith in quiet observations about the contradictory elements that make up our relationship with ourselves and those we love. It is, refreshingly, a novel for grown-ups.

Johanna Thomas-Corr, THE TIMES

A sucker-punch of a novel

GRAZIA