A beautifully written novel! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

A sweeping love story, different periods in time, life crossroads stumbled over, anguished about and how we are made to choose in our lives - feature importantly in the transfixing novel The Valley of the Moon.

If there is one genre I love is it time travel, especially when it's well-done. Like this story. I just love how Lux stumbles into the past, to a little community stuck in time and, then as the years pass by she keeps going back. Only telling her best friend about it. Although the best friend isn't that sure that Lux is telling the truth. I keep wondering why she just didn't accompany Lux to the Valley of the Moon to find out the truth. I would it a heartbeat, I mean if your best friend tells you she has found a community stuck in time, wouldn't you try to find out if she is telling the truth or is barking mad?

Lux is a fabulous character, a young single mother, estranged from her family. She finds herself truly enjoying the life in Greengage. And, her heart is torn between the peace there and her life in the 70s San Francisco.

Anyway, there is also a lot of heartache in the story, without giving away too much of the story is time moving differently in the hidden community contrary to present time and that will have some consequences. Then, there is the ending, such a bittersweet ending. It broke my heart.

Valley of the Moon is a fabulous time travel novel, with a mesmerizing, occasionally sad story, but there is also a sweet love story for those that enjoy it (even I did). I recommend it warmly!

What a wonderful story! I love any story that can transport me to another time or another place without making me feel like it's all hocus pocus. This story was believable which is shocking because it is in essence about time travel! I loved the back and forth between time and all of the details the author added to make it seem like I was in each place. I loved the love story between Lux and Joseph and the slow way it unraveled. The love between Lux and her son Benno was beautiful and tragic and I felt every emotion she had as a mother to a son myself. Great book!

What would you do if you could find the perfect place to raise your son? A place where it's safe for him to play alone in the backyard, a place where the neighbors care and look after you? Would you move there? Lux wants to but Greengage is not your average town. An earthquake in 1906 has left the town froze in that time period. So Lux tries to keep her son rooted in the present while she occasionally visits Greengage and begins to fall in love with a man old enough to be her great grandfather. A beautiful and unforgettable story, reminiscent of Sarah Addison Allen