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Book review: Moon cycles used to charts life’s up and downs in remarkable memoir

Using each month’s moon, Twelve Moons tracks Caro Giles’ attempts to find meaning, significance and routine in the chaos of single parenthood, coping with divorce, Covid and the struggle and challenges of everyday life

Caro Giles, author of Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky. Sometimes the moon offers what so many people, especially women, seek – an acknowledgement, a feeling of significance

How do you measure time in a year when all sense of routine is interrupted? Once we relied on the moon to guide our travel at night, but today it still offers us companionship in darkness.

Caro Giles’s memoir uses it to chart a year in the life of her family. She is a single mother working through divorce proceedings, caring for her four daughters through a global pandemic and “a world that has revealed ...