The Moon's Complexion

by Irene Black

Bangalore, India 1991. Ashok Rao, a brilliant young Indian doctor, has returned from England to take part in an arranged marriage. Who is the intriguing Englishwoman that seeks him out there? Journalist Hannah Petersen is being pursued across India by a sinister killer-but why? This exotic tale of love across cultural boundaries unfolds within the mystical heat of Southern India, Sri Lanka and the icy countryside of England in winter. The lives of two strangers are turned upside down when they meet and are threatened by the aftermath of a common tragedy many years before.

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2005

About the author

Irene Black was previously a psychologist and teacher and lived in the USA, Australia and India. She had a Masters degree in Asian Arts. She won national and international prizes for short stories and poetry, including the 2003 National Association of Writers’ Groups Annual Short Story award. She had three published novels, two, The Moon’s Complexion and Darshan: a Journey, based in India and the third, Noontide Owls, a crossover fantasy.

Reviews

[Irene Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whoops! I'm a novice at Goodreads so I didn't realise I was promoting my own books! Naturally I'll have to give it 5 stars! This was my first novel - a romantic thriller set in India and Sri Lanka, with occasional forays into leafy, rural Surrey. It's a love story between an Indian doctor and an English journalist, and is also about how easy it is to jump to conclusions about people from a different culture.

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hannah Peterson, writer and photographer, is the pivot in this tale of mystery intertwined with a love story, both linking England and India.