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Under the Same Moon: A story from the Great War by [Chris Durrant]

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As the world turns to war, they chose love...

Humphrey is the son of a vicar, Ruth the daughter of a farmer. Their chance meeting soon turns to affection, however this is 1914 and the world is rapidly spiralling towards one of the most brutal and lengthy conflicts the world has witnessed. As Britain joins the war in Europe, Humphrey and Ruth must navigate their utterly changed circumstances as the Great War reshapes their lives.

Under The Same Moon follows two lovers, and their family as they navigate the emotional and physical challenges of surviving The Great War. A tale that crosses the waters from England to Southern Africa, it is a perfect combination of romance and drama underscored with detailed observations of the wartime era.

”An absorbing tale of courage and adventure, love and loss, in which the over-riding theme is the abiding strength of family bonds.”

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Under the Same Moon is the memorable fiction debut of Australian writer Chris Durrant. A natural story-teller, the author weaves the true-life story of an uncle who fought the Germans in East Africa into a wide-ranging tale that encompasses a cast of characters that readers will find hard to forget. From the secure hamlets of Yorkshire to the bleak and brutal battlefields of Europe and Africa, Under the Same Moon, is a tale told with humour and humanity from the differing perspectives of its central characters.

Length: 192 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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About the Author

Chris Durrant was born in India to British parents in the last days of the Raj. He was brought up in Kenya, had three enjoyable and not completely wasted years at Oxford, and went back to East Africa to work for the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), a sort of British equivalent of the World Bank. After postings with CDC in Swaziland and Jamaica, he migrated with his family to Australia. He now lives with his wife Shirley in the hills above Perth, Western Australia. Children and grandchildren are scattered around the world, including Perth. Apart from financial management, Chris has worked as a pig farmer and a school-teacher. He is a rugby fanatic, an environmentalist, and a keen student of the history of the Great War, in which his father served and two of his uncles died. He has written his autobiography and a collection of whimsical essays about the school where he worked, as well as numerous songs and comic poems over the years. He has also co-authored several school accounting text-books. Under the Same Moon is his first novel. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B07CP2RSK6
Language : English
File size : 2320 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 192 pages

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- 717 in World War I History (Kindle Store)
- 3,552 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books)
- 17,446 in Military Romance (Books)

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Graeme Amazon Customer

A Well Written and Enjoyable Read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 May 2018

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The author has crafted a well written and researched story around events in the Great War both in France an South Africa.
It has very human elements of love and sorrow as well as the more gritty aspects of war. One comment I would make is the addition of a glossary of unfamiliar terms used as an appendix would be helpful to decode some of the obvious archaic terms used to lend a period feel to the lingo used. Well worth a read.

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Anne

Well worth reading!

Reviewed in Australia on 23 May 2018

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I really enjoyed reading this book and found it difficult to put down! A very interesting account of what might have happened in SA in WW1.

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Cinnamon_tg

More please 😊

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2018

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My mum who is a real war history nerd and grew up in Africa with her own father fighting at El Alamein in WW2 put me onto this book. I can’t remember how she described it to me but I started it thinking it was a memoir of a soldier in East Africa during WW1. However rather than a memoir it’s a lovely story of a young Englishman (Humphrey) who ends up in East Africa just before the Great War breaks out and becomes a soldier chasing down Germans through the bushveldt. Told through the eyes of the main character and his family it was apparently inspired by the authors own uncle who fought in East Africa during WW1. Maybe that’s where I got the idea of a memoir from 🤔

I wasn’t expecting a gentle, evocative story tracing Humphrey and his family through England, France and Africa. The author has written this story with a lovely sense of time and place. I had to stop casting it as a BBC Sunday night drama in my head as I was reading. There was a tantilising link to the current day which bookended the story which I would have liked to see more of. My only other criticism is that I wanted to hear more of Humphrey’s family - his brother Oliver fighting in the trenches in France and his sister Molly nursing the broken and dying as they are pulled from the trenches. We were given glimpses into their own stories but I was keen for more.

The author knows his history and has obviously done his research but it never dulls or slows the story down - just adds to the storytelling. I also enjoyed reading a WW1 story based in Africa as it wasn’t a part of the war I knew much about.

I thoroughly recommend this story and look forward to the next one or even better, more of this one 😊

Jean Kenyon

a great read not to be missed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2018

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A deeply satisfying read. I loved the way the strong characterization wove through the events in such a natural way.
Easy to read but it gives plenty to think about.
I found it a real page turner and would recommend it to anyone whether or not you are interested in the war.

Wenders

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2018

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A wonderful story written extremely well written. I couldn't put it down!

Lesley

Excellent first novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2018

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A beautifully written and captivating, poignant story. Short and to the point - no unnecessary padding. Quite a history lesson for this age.

maureen

A timely and engrossing story to mark the 100th anniversary of the war to end all wars...

Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2018

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A young man goes in search of a lonely grave in Africa and unlocks a story of the Great War. In this novel inspired by the war service of his uncle who died in the conflict, the author tracks the members of a family whose lives are changed utterly by the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. From a quiet village in Yorkshire, we follow his characters to the trenches of the Western Front, a military hospital in France, and finally into close combat in the East African bush. An absorbing tale of courage and adventure, love and loss, in which the over-riding theme is the abiding strength of family bonds.

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