The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon A Novel

by Gautreau, Norman G.; Gautreau, Norman G.

• ISBN13: 9781943075737
• ISBN10: 1943075735
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781943075621
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-08
• Publisher: Blank Slate Press
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Summary

A poignant novel of love, loss, and remembrance set against the backdrop of WWII. Ninety-two-year-old Henry Budge escapes a rehab facility to return to France for the 70th D-Day observance. Haunted by a decades-old grief, he seeks to rekindle memories of Élodie Bedier, a French Resistance fighter he loved during the war.

Reliving his wartime experiences, Henry confronts the past: his parachute jump into Normandy, his love affair with Élodie, fighting alongside the Resistance, and a fateful decision to rescue children from the Holocaust. As Henry retraces his steps, shocking discoveries challenge his memories, forcing him to question what is real and what is imagined. Will he find peace, or will the ghosts of the past consume him?

Author Biography

Norman G. Gautreau: A native New Englander with a life-long love of the sea, Norman’s first novel, Sea Room, won the prestigious Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction in 2003, was an “All-City-Reads” choice in several cities, and was a BookSense® selection. He has since written several more critically acclaimed, prize-winning novels. An avid reader, poet, sailor, runner, and cyclist, Norman lives outside Boston with his wife Susan and three cats.