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Dark Star

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Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre. (Time Magazine, June 10, 1929)

Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle, never knew who her father was, and is abandoned by her mother. The novel follows Nancy after she navigates adolescence and adulthood, while encountering society’s marginalised in her search both for her father’s identity and her own. 

Under Lorna Moon’s forensic gaze, the conventions, mores, and hypocrisies of small community life are examined in minute and often rye detail. And through Nancy’s growing understanding of her own desire, Moon is able to analyse female sexuality at a time when to do so was revolutionary.  ‘It is revolting to me’, Moon wrote in a letter, ‘that in a civilised world a woman’s virtue rests entirely upon her hymen. Excuse me, I always get worked up about this.’* With Dark Star Moon works through her outrage. As she herself in a letter says of the novel, it was ‘sincere effort to show what the men in a woman’s life bring to her, and take from her … It is the inside of a woman written from the inside.’ *

*cited by Dr Glenda Norquay 

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Dark Star

from £10.00

Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre. (Time Magazine, June 10, 1929)

Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle, never knew who her father was, and is abandoned by her mother. The novel follows Nancy after she navigates adolescence and adulthood, while encountering society’s marginalised in her search both for her father’s identity and her own. 

Under Lorna Moon’s forensic gaze, the conventions, mores, and hypocrisies of small community life are examined in minute and often rye detail. And through Nancy’s growing understanding of her own desire, Moon is able to analyse female sexuality at a time when to do so was revolutionary.  ‘It is revolting to me’, Moon wrote in a letter, ‘that in a civilised world a woman’s virtue rests entirely upon her hymen. Excuse me, I always get worked up about this.’* With Dark Star Moon works through her outrage. As she herself in a letter says of the novel, it was ‘sincere effort to show what the men in a woman’s life bring to her, and take from her … It is the inside of a woman written from the inside.’ *

*cited by Dr Glenda Norquay 

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About the Author

Scottish born, Lorna Moon, was a journalist, renowned novelist and celebrated scriptwriter in the early days of Hollywood, working on films for the likes of Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. A socialist and atheist, she lived outside the conventions of her time, leaving her husband to live as a common-law wife of Walter Moon from whom she took her pen name and having a child with William DeMille, brother of Cecil B DeMille. In 1930, Moon contracted TB, dying aged 44.