The Moon is Broken

Every mother’s worst nightmare…

Ann Craig is the perfect daughter — bright, beautiful, loving and kind. At home and in school, she is a child that any mother would be proud of — and Eleanor Craig was immensely proud of her oldest daughter. But just as Ann is about to graduate with honors from an Ivy League university, Eleanor receives a phone call that sends her world crashing down: Ann has suffered a mental breakdown.

Ann is admitted to a prestigious psychiatric hospital, and things are improving with Ann seemingly ready to resume her old life that was so full of promise. Briefly hopefull, Eleanor is devastated when Ann suffers a relapse — only the first of many illusions to be shattered as Ann’s life becomes a downward spiral of anorexia and drug addiction. Nobody can reach her. For Eleanor, a famed therapist-teacher who specialises in working with emotionally impaired young people, Ann’s troubled life is a heartbreaking irony.

In The Moon Is Broken, Eleanor Craig speaks to the heart of every parent who has ever loved — and lost — a child. It is a heart-wrenching story about one’s mother’s unwavering courage and commitment to her child.

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