Set against the backdrop of the Hull floods it's atmospheric, dark, funny and sad as we journey with Catherine as she tries to remember what happened in her ninth year. Hemispheric structures correspond to spherical harmonic degree 1, and do not contribute to the moments of inertia. This is because the Earth was also still molten and radiated heat towards the side of the Moon facing it.

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Huge thanks to Orenda books and Anne Cater for my copy of the book and for inviting me on the blog tour.She’s a very real character in that she’s not perfect and she does make mistakes but this helps increase the readers empathy for her as we have all found ourselves in similar situations! Lunar mare deposits associated with the Orientale impact basin: New insights into mineralogy, history, mode of emplacement, and relation to Orientale Basin evolution from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data from Chandrayaan-1".

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There’s a little bit of everything, a mystery, some love, a hint of magical realism and most importantly, a plot that any human could relate to. Obviously her upbringing has had its effects on her and then there are some strange things about Catherine. Following the first Soviet exploration of the Moon’s far side in 1959, scientists noted that it has fewer flat, dark maria than the side locked facing Earth. In addition, the crustal thickness beneath this basin is predicted to be much smaller than beneath Oceanus Procellarum. Maria In The Moon” is an emotional charged read and I defy anyone not to feel a tug of the heartstrings as Catherine’s story reaches its climax.

Once thought to be seas of water, these are actually large, flat plains of solidified basaltic lava. There are clues to what has caused the damage: why can she not remember anything that happened when she was nine years old? A devastating flood reawakens a young woman’s buried childhood memories … with life-changing results. Since, these plains are darker than the bright highlands the early observers interpreted them as water seas.

Maria in the Moon - Kindle edition by Beech, Louise

Set in Hull, just after the floods of 2007, the book focuses on Catherine Hope, who had no memories of her ninth year.

Yet, impact craters are uniformly seen on both sides of the Moon, so it took some time and further analysis to discover why there are fewer lunar maria on the dark side of the Moon. Her short fiction has won the Glass Woman Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose, and the Aesthetica Creative Works competition, as well as shortlisting for the Bridport Prize twice. The author uses real events to imbue that authenticity, she takes you to the heart of all the themes she is exploring and makes you sit up and take notice.