"Jenni Ogden is a beautiful writer. In her newest, a tale of domestic suspense, Ogden tells the story of a neurosurgeon bedeviled by her own sophisticated brain and the memories of a long-ago tragedy that still has the power to destroy her and her family. Pick up The Moon is Missing. You won’t put it down. "

— Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and My Only

"With gripping scenes set during Hurricane Katrina and on a remote New Zealand island, this tightly-woven family drama—fueled by long-buried secrets and a daughter’s desperate need to answer the question, ‘Who am I?’ —is ripe for book club discussion."

—Barbara Claypole White, bestselling author of A Perfect Son & The Promise Between Us

“In Jenni Ogden’s second novel, The Moon is Missing, this gifted author returns to the themes of passion-driven work, second chances, our capacity for resilience after terrible mistakes, and the power of loving connection. To these deeply explored notions, Ogden adds a timely focus on generations of coming-of-age, how we make families and the consequences of the choice to keep secrets. Georgia Grayson, a neurosurgeon in London must suddenly face an emotionally obscured past stretching from New Zealand to New Orleans, just as she is poised to move into a coveted promotion at her hospital. At stake is her daughter’s identity, her marriage, and her capacity to continue in her high pressure, highly skilled specialty. Along the way, Ogden showcases a skillful capacity to feature a no-nonsense woman physician’s journey to reckon with her own emotional complexity and connect the dots to her relationships with those she loves without sacrificing a plausible narrative. That said, this is no sedate plot, with momentum built by accidents, hurricanes, a dollop of voodoo and Maori mysticism and well-timed revelations of interconnected family secrets. Finally, Ogden’s fine evocation of the physical world, whether it be quiet London, battered New Orleans or New Zealand’s spectacular Great Barrier Island rounds out the perfect reading pleasure of this wonderful novel.”

—Barbara Stark-Nemon, author of Even in Darkness & Hard Cider

The Moon is Missing by Jenni Ogden is a beautifully written women’s fiction novel about Georgia Grayson, a neurosurgeon in London. When her daughter, Lara, starts asking about her biological father, Georgia struggles with what to tell her since he died in a tragic accident before Lara was even born. Then, after a panic attack while performing surgery, she seeks therapy in order to get the all- clear to operate again. What she doesn’t expect is her past coming to the forefront of her mind and memories resurfacing. In an effort to help her daughter, Georgia takes her to New Orleans where she met Lara’s father, Danny. However, while there, Hurricane Katrina strikes. What follows is a heartwarming revelation of coming to terms with the past and returning to the place where it all happened.

I truly enjoyed this novel. I felt it was well-written and the characters were immensely believable, even down to Adam, Georgia’s husband’s feelings of neglect while Georgia was going through therapy. Ogden did not shy away from the harsh realities of what can happen when someone in a family is experiencing panic attacks and trauma from the past. Katrina was a tragedy and I feel the novel really paid homage to the medical staff who worked tirelessly to make sure people were evacuated. I also loved Lara, because I feel she really exemplified the way a teenager would be in this situation, but still with an air of maturity. The Moon is Missing by Jenni Ogden is certainly a must-read for anyone who is a fan of women’s fiction, especially harkening back to the old greats such as Fern Michaels. Very well done.

—Readers Favorite, 5 Star Review

Suzy's Approved Book Tours; On Tour 8/23/20- 9/28/20 “The Moon Is Missing” by Jenni Ogden; 22 stops. 

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New release e-mail blasts on a number of e-book sites

Online marketing, author's e-mail list subscribers notified for Pre-orders, Street team for ARCs, 

e-book on  Kindle Select for initial 3 months (until 25th November, 2020) then distributed wide, Paperback distributed wide from August 25th 2020. 

Kindle Countdown deal in November. 

Audiobook (read by Cat Gould,, narrator for the audiobook of' A Drop in the Ocean) due for release wide distribution, on 16th September.