Reading by Moonlight is a meditation in praise of reading and a travellers tale. Written in the aftermath of an illness, it tells a story of journeys undertaken in the world and in the mind at a time when reading and survival were closely aligned. Along with discussions of Dante, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Beckett and Dickens, the book shows how the very process of reading - surrendering and then regathering the self- echoes the process of healing.