Breathtakingly powerful Guardian This startling absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility Noreen Masud In the blue dusk of a spring evening a man is drawn to a lonely beautiful stranger across a station platform She follows him home and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes recounts to him the devastating story of her life First published in 1947 Nothing Grows by Moonlight tells the haunting tale of one womans soulshattering love affair When an obsessive passion for her high school teacher consumes a smalltown seventeenyearold her life spirals out of control giving way to pregnancy poverty and alienation Here darkness and light converge and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices as she fights for autonomy over her life her mind and her bodyCaptivating visceral and brimming with emotion Nothing Grows by Moonlight is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature and an uncompromising ode to female desire
