It's not long into Loren Taylor's The Moon Is Upside Down before Victoria Haralabidou's Natalia realises that her new life in New Zealand is not what she hoped for. The cafe she is supposed to be managing is a dingy service station on a dead road, and she goes out to take in the scenery, and it's just flat, dull farmland in every direction, very fucking far from Middle-Earth.
It's little surprise when she soon finds out that there are ulterior motives behind the purely transactional matrimonial deal that got her into the country, and she has to make some big and terrible decisions, but there really is some dark humour in the way her new husband and his awful sister, played by the legendary Robyn Malcolm, truly don't understand why Natalia isn't impressed by life on the flat farm.
What do you mean you don't like it? You don't know how lucky you are. Eat more butter.
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