Agent: Sheila Crowley, Curtis Brown (U.K.).

There’s plenty of drama, but the reader’s lasting impression is one of love. Moyes ( Still Me) stereotypes her antagonists a bit, but provides tremendous warmth among the librarians and centers their perspectives thoroughly. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes - Reading Guide: 9780399562495 - : Books 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring. But powerful men in Baileyville oppose the library, as it employs a black woman, influences women and children’s minds with fiction, encourages previously illiterate families to defend their rights against encroaching mining companies, and teaches women about intimacy through a secret copy of Married Love. I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have loved creating it. It’s a story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances.

She’s sustained by her friendships with the other women, especially the brash, self-sufficient Margery O’Hare, and the appreciation of the isolated families she serves. My brand new novel Someone Else’s Shoes publishes on 2nd February 2023. She finds respite in riding with the women of the new WPA-sponsored horseback library.

Alice Wright escapes her stifling English family by marrying an American, but this choice leads to further misery in the rural Kentucky household of her unaffectionate husband and his domineering father, the owner of the local coal mine. Set in small-town 1930s Kentucky, the novel centers on a group of women. An adventure story grounded in female competence and mutual support, and an obvious affection for the popular literature of the early 20th century, give this Depression-era novel plenty of appeal. Moyes latest, The Giver of Stars, is set to receive the same treatment almost a decade later (exact release date TBD ).

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