The Moon is Missing

Neurosurgeon Georgia Grayson has long balanced a demanding career in London with her role as a wife and mother. She is close to becoming the first woman to lead neurosurgery at a major city hospital, and at home, with her husband Adam's support, she manages occasional anxiety attacks. Everything shifts when her fifteen-year-old daughter Lara presses for answers about Danny, the man who was her biological father. He came from New Orleans and died before Lara was born, and Georgia cannot tell her what happened.

As panic attacks grow worse and stop her from operating, and therapy fails to recover the memories she has buried, cracks spread through the family. Georgia decides she must return to New Orleans, where she first fell in love with Danny through his singing, and then travel to the remote New Zealand island where he died in a fall. She is determined to learn the truth her daughter deserves, whatever it costs her.

The novel moves between London, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and a remote island off New Zealand. It explores family secrets, mother-daughter conflict and the pull of a past that refuses to stay hidden.