There are some very beautiful and poignant moments in the story both funny and sad but nevertheless compelling. At times I wanted to just jump into the book and befriend Catherine - she often seemed so lonely, and although it's evident to the reader that something horrendous happened when she was nine it was still upsetting to read and my heart totally went out to her. Catherine has an exceptional memory but for some reason, she can’t remember a single thing about the year when she was nine years old. When she loses her home to a flood, she volunteers at a Flood Crisis Line and bit by bit, things will start to fall into place that will ultimately reveal a devastating memory.

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O'Neill, Ian (October 27, 2009), "Living in Lunar Lava Tubes", Discover News, archived from the original on 23 October 2012 , retrieved 1 January 2012 Volcanism on the Moon is represented by the presence of volcanoes, pyroclastic deposits and vast lava plains on the lunar surface. The volcanoes are typically in the form of small domes and cones that form large volcanic complexes and isolated edifices. Calderas, large-scale collapse features generally formed late in a volcanic eruptive episode, are exceptionally rare on the Moon. Lunar pyroclastic deposits are the result of lava fountain eruptions from volatile-laden basaltic magmas rapidly ascending from deep mantle sources and erupting as a spray of magma, forming tiny glass beads. However, pyroclastic deposits formed by less common non-basaltic explosive eruptions are also thought to exist on the Moon. Lunar lava plains cover large swaths of the Moon's surface and consist mainly of voluminous basaltic flows. They contain a number of volcanic features related to the cooling of lava, including lava tubes, rilles and wrinkle ridges. I love the emotional honesty and glorious imagery of Louise Beech’s writing and both are in plentiful supply in this unusual and intriguing story. Early humans mistook these dark plains to be real seas, which is where the name comes from. However, we know today that these dark gray zones are formed from iron-rich basalts produced in volcanic eruptions. This is my second book by Louise Beech... her stories are lyrical and moving, emotional and raw, real and stunning! There is something magical about both her writing style and her stories themselves... hard to categorize they defy any genre...The name game". Nature Magazine. 488 (7412): 429. 22 August 2012. Bibcode: 2012Natur.488R.429.. doi: 10.1038/488429b. PMID 22914129. A related set of features are the Lunar lacus / ˈ l eɪ k ə s/ (singular also lacus, Latin for " lake"), [a] which are smaller basaltic plains of similar origin:

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Gupta, R.P.; Srivastava, N.; Tiwari, R.K. (2014). "Evidences of relatively new volcanic flows on the Moon". Current Science. 107 (3): 454–460. G. Jeffrey Taylor (August 31, 2000). "A New Moon for the Twenty-First Century". Planetary Science Research Discoveries. There are clues to what has caused the damage: why can she not remember anything that happened when she was nine years old? Why is her mother so hostile? We want Catherine to remember, and to find happiness, but when there is a potential love story right in front of her, something real, with a man who is sensitive and genuine, she is too scared to trust it. As heartbreaking as the book ends up being, it’s a title worth wading into and rolling with’ Book Riot

Every once in awhile a special type of book comes along and gets well and truly under my skin, it takes ahold of me, consumes me even and Maria in the Moon was that rare beauty of a book. Louise Beech is an astoundingly gifted writer, reading one of her books is a true honor. Shirley, K. A.; Zanetti, M.; Jolliff, B.; van der Bogert, C. H.; Hiesinger, H. (2013). Crater Size-Frequency Distribution Measurements and Age of the Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex (PDF). 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference . Retrieved 2020-12-30. a b c d Sigurdsson, Haraldur; Houghton, Bruce; McNutt, Steve; Rymer, Hazel; Stix, John (2015). "Volcanism on the Moon". The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Elsevier. p.695. ISBN 978-0-12-385938-9. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.