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The Moon Is Making
The Moon is Making is a bleak, unsettling and psychologically charged portrait of a fractured coastal community. Through the lens of the Wikker family – whose moral decline and eventual ruin is the focus of the novel – it explores class division and emotional alienation, all set against the stark backdrop of the socially divided town of Whitby at the turn of the twentieth century.
But despite all this, the book is also a love letter to the North of England, and to Whitby, and its enduring dramatic appeal to writers, artists and musicians (think Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Michel Faber and Kate Atkinson, not to mention folk music, the artist Dame Laura Knight, the fabulous actor Sam Barnett, and of course, modern Goth culture).
But despite all this, the book is also a love letter to the North of England, and to Whitby, and its enduring dramatic appeal to writers, artists and musicians (think Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Michel Faber and Kate Atkinson, not to mention folk music, the artist Dame Laura Knight, the fabulous actor Sam Barnett, and of course, modern Goth culture).
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First published January 1, 1937
About the author
Storm Jameson
80 books24 followersMargaret Storm Jameson was an English writer, known for her 45 novels, and criticism.
Jameson studied at the University of Leeds, later moving to London, where in 1914 she earned an MA from King's College London. She was a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. She married writer Guy Chapman, but continued to publish as Storm Jameson.
From 1939, Jameson was a prominent president of the British branch of the International PEN association, and active in helping refugee writers. She wrote three volumes of autobiography.
A well-received biography, by Jennifer Birkett, Professor of French Studies at Birmingham University, was published by the Oxford University Press in March 2009.
Jameson studied at the University of Leeds, later moving to London, where in 1914 she earned an MA from King's College London. She was a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. She married writer Guy Chapman, but continued to publish as Storm Jameson.
From 1939, Jameson was a prominent president of the British branch of the International PEN association, and active in helping refugee writers. She wrote three volumes of autobiography.
A well-received biography, by Jennifer Birkett, Professor of French Studies at Birmingham University, was published by the Oxford University Press in March 2009.
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August 8, 2026
A bitter uneasy account of life in Wik (Whitby) amongst the poor. A horrible family is the subject and I found the book so brutal that I stopped reading it.
It is probably brilliantly written but this wasn't enough to get me to continue.
It is probably brilliantly written but this wasn't enough to get me to continue.
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