Close friendships evolve, as her marriage falters. When the opportunity arises to become one of the county’s packhorse librarians, taking library books on horseback to isolated farms in the mountains, she leaps at the chance to join this band of pioneering women. Alice has moved there from England, after a whirlwind marriage to the handsome and charming Bennet, son of the local mill owner.īut her life in America is not the glamorous one she had envisaged. The Giver of Stars is set in Kentucky in the Depression years. One thing Jojo Moyes does exceptionally well, is to narrate a cracking good tale, with characters that leap from the page, drawing you into the story from the very start. Her latest book - The Giver of Stars, was definitely on my reading list. I’m a great fan of Jo Jo Moyes, and was delighted to hear that she was coming to the Felixstowe Book festival at the end of June (now going online in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic). ()**īorrow The Giver of Stars from our Overdrive →
**On March 2 2021, BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Lesley Dolphin will be discussing this title as part of a monthly book group.
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