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In the Mood by Laura Bloom is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is In the Mood about?

Robert was surprised when he saw the atom blast on film, the mushroom cloud billowing up to the sky, so peaceful and final-looking. So natural-seeming that this was what would end it. ... ...Home was her, Catherine, in her blue cotton dress, dancing to the radio in the living room, the furniture pushed back against the walls to give her space. Him sitting on one of the chairs against the wall, entranced, not just by the glimpses of thigh and garter belt, her skirt in a perpetual flying ruffle, but her energy, her hips and hands and every part of her so alive. It’s February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weatherboard house in Sydney, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting. They haven’t seen each for three years, yet they are separated by so much more than time. Robert is haunted by the horrors of what he has seen and done, fighting in the humid jungles of New Guinea, and Catherine is carrying the guilt of her affair with a charismatic US Marine — and other secrets too painful to confront. With so much that’s changed between them, can Catherine and Robert find their way back to each other again? Through intimately exploring the experience of one co

Author

Laura Bloom

Language

EN

Rating

3.02 / 5 (323 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14