The Moon's Our Home

by Faith Baldwin

Only an actress completely absorbed in herself could ahve missed hearing of Anthony Amberton, the explorer-writer all the women in America adored. Cherry Chester was just such an actress. Only an adventurer who had spent his life traveling to have adventures could have missed seeing Cherry Chester on the stage, the screen, and in the magazines. Amberton was just such a man. Only these two could have met without recognition and could have fallen in love without the glitter of fame outshining the glow of love. And, of course, their love couldn't last. Or could it?

Genres: Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

Faith Baldwin attended private academies and finishing schools, and in 1914-16 she lived in Dresden, Germany. She married Hugh H. Cuthrell in 1920, and the next year she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill. Although she often claimed she did not care for authorship, her steady stream of books belies that claim; over the next 56 years she published more than 85 books, more than 60 of them novels with such titles as Those Difficult Years (1925), The Office Wife (1930), Babs and Mary Lou (1931), District Nurse (1932), Manhattan Nights (1937), and He Married a Doctor (1944). Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977.

Typically, a Faith Baldwin book presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and hero and heroine are united. Evil, depravity, poverty, and sex found no place in her work, which she explicitly intended for the housewife and the working girl. The popularity of her writing was enormous. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, she published five novels in magazine serial form and three earlier serials in volume form and saw four of her works made into motion pictures, for an income that year in excess of $315,000. She also wrote innumerable stories, articles, and newspaper columns, no less ephemeral than the novels.

Reviews

[Kathleen Vincenz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very funny and fun in the beginning. Took to long to get the characters together. Faith Baldwin needed to focus more on quality than quantity. Listen to the Lux Theater radio play based on the book for some real fun and romance:

https://myspace.com/jimmystewart/musi...

See my blog about Faith Baldwin:

http://kathyvincenz.tumblr.com/post/4...

And my blog on the radio play:

http://kathyvincenz.tumblr.com/post/5...

[Samantha Glasser]

This was made into a film in 1936 starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan.

[Nick Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

The last quarter of the book wastes a romantic, jealousy-baiting farce set against a glamorous house party and a literal Hollywood ending on two rather unlikable individuals I’d long grown weary of.