
A Bright Moon for Fools
A Novel
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Ralph Lister
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Jasper Gibson
About this listen
Harry Christmas is unable to cope with the death of his wife and has been bouncing from one bad decision to the next. After a terrifying assault by the son of a woman he has conned, he makes up his mind to leave the country. Now Harry Christmas is on the run.
On a mission to track down his wife's ancestral village, Christmas arrives in Venezuela certain that his fortunes are about to improve. He's dead wrong. Soon out of money and luck, he is forced into yet more deceit - with devastating consequences for those he has fooled. Lost, drunk, and lurching across rural Venezuela, Christmas reaches the point of breakdown. He wakes up in a village at the end of the world. He is hanging by one leg from a tree.
Inspired by the mighty Lola Rosa, he tries to crawl out of his spiritual abyss and find a way to live amongst these fishermen and farmers - but love isn't easy when you are a career liar still married to the dead. As the real trouble begins, can redemption survive?
Published in the UK to great acclaim, A Bright Moon for Fools is a comic novel that is as funny as it is heartbreaking. Jasper Gibson's debut marks the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction.
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- D3LIGHT&D3CAY
- 02-28-21
Decent story, solid performance.
bit of a hard sell and the moral dilemma kind of left me in consternation over the protagonists character. He's kind of a shit, and his choices and character defects make it hard to root for him, but the characters around him garner sincere empathy and by association you want him to get his life together and be a better person, if for no other reason than to stop the blow back of his terrible decisions hitting the people around him. Quality performance from narrator, fairly well constructed story and clearly enough character development to pull my emotions, even if one of those emotions is frustration and resentment for the main characters
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