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Empowering Story with Typical Moyes-que Romance
This novel has two themes: the power of reading, and women fighting for their space in society.
Set in 1930s Kentucky, The Giver Of Stars is based on the ... READ MORE
A wonderful, moving read
Set in Kentucky, this book follows the story of a group of Pack Horse Librarians - an organisation created during the Depression so that people who lived o... READ MORE
An absolute gem of a book
A fabulous stand alone novel from the amazing Jojo Moyes.
Set during the depression in 1930 Alice is newly married, she leaves England to start a new life... READ MORE
Beautiful!
This is one of those books that you mourn for the moment you turn the final page. Alice, Margery and the other characters truly began to feel like friends,... READ MORE
Her best work yet
When I realised this book was about female friendship and the importance of books I knew I would enjoy it. Nothing could have prepared me for just how much... READ MORE
Absolutely incredible!
Highlighting the uplifting and empowering effect friendship can have, this brilliant novel was a joy to read! It followed an inspiring cast of characters w... READ MORE
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2020
A Reese Witherspoon book club pick
The greatest love story is the one you least expect...
Alice Wright doesn't love her new American husband.
Nor her domineering father-in-law or the judgmental townsfolk of Baileyville, Kentucky.
Stifled and misunderstood, she yearns for escape and finds it in defiant Margery O'Hare and the sisterhood bringing books to the isolated and vulnerable.
But when her father-in-law and the town turn against them, Alice fears the freedom, friendship and the new love she's found will be lost . . .
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780718183219
- Number of pages: 464
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 30 mm
- Weight: 306g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allWritten in the stars!
Set in America during the Depression. This story is intricately described.
Based on true events.
An intrepid group of women head out, on horseback to bri... READ MORE
Wonderful!
Sometimes you fall so utterly head over heels in love with a book and it’s characters than when you reach the final page, you shed a little tear and spend ... READ MORE
A beautiful and thought-provoking story.
Another excellent book, a beautiful and thought-provoking story.
I have read two other books by Jojo Moyes and enjoyed them immensely so was delighted to ... READ MORE
Five Compelling and Wondrous Stars !
“Knowledge is important, don’t you think? We all say at the library, without facts we really do have nothing.”
When one of your all-time favourite authors... READ MORE
About reading, friendship, independence - brilliant.
Love, love, love this book! And if you love sharing the joy of reading, this book is absolutely for you too.
The Horseback Librarians really existed back ... READ MORE
I loved this book.
This is Jojo Moyes at her absolute best. Warm and likeable female characters, a fascinating location and era, laughter and tears. I was hooked from page on... READ MORE
Historical Fiction
Oh I loved this book. JoJo Moyes has such a fabulous writing style. I have read much of what she has written and nothing really disappoints. This book is... READ MORE
True life tale -The mobile libraries of Kentucky!
Alice has recently moved to Kentucky in search of a better life with her new husband. What she finds there however is much more than she expected. Her mar... READ MORE
Glorious
Having read all her previous novels I was thrilled that a new Jojo Moyes book was finally being published and this definitely does not disappoint. Whilst M... READ MORE
Powerful and poignant
JoJo Moyes needed no introduction for me as I have long been a fan but The Giver of Stars affected me as much as Me Before You. And the fact that the story... READ MORE
Brilliant
I haven't quite finished this book, but can't wait to see how it ends. It's completely different to Jojo Moyes' other books, and at first I wasn't sure I w... READ MORE
Very good
This was entertaining and taught me about a period in history I knew nothing about.
Incredible!
This was the first book by JoJo Moyes that I’ve read, and now I’ll definitely read more! She’s a brilliant writer who grabbed my attention straight away wi... READ MORE
Triumphant change of style
Quite unlike her recent fiction, The Giver of Stars opens up a world I would guess few British readers would know about. A triumph of research, it brings t... READ MORE
Brilliant novel
I loved this book so much. Really strong characters and a great storyline.
This is a perfect book to read during lockdown days and beyond
The Giver of Stars is the most lovely book that will stay with me for a long time. It is set in rural Kentucky in the Depression. The plot is based on the ... READ MORE
This is a beautifully written book
Baileyville, Kentucky and Alice arrives from England with her new husband and his father, the owners of the mine.
However, life isn't what she expects unti... READ MORE
Fantastic read!
A fantastic book which I would have devoured much faster had I not been in the throes of the beginning of the school year tiredness!
Jojo Moyes has created... READ MORE
Four stars for The Giver of Stars
I loved this book, would like to read more of her writing and would recommend it to friends.
I liked that it was based on a historical movement – Eleanor R... READ MORE
Wonderful book
I couldn't put this book down, I was enthralled, waiting to see what life threw at these amazing women. It was one of the most heartwarming stories about a... READ MORE
Jojo Moyes.......The Giver of Stars
One of Jojo's best....... the characters were amazingly well developed and the historical setting was startling, and very new to me. I loved it , I yearne... READ MORE
Got to love Jo Jo Moyes!
I've loved Jo Jo Moyes's books for a long time, probably since 'Last Letter From Your Lover'. 'The Giver of Stars' is not one of her classic gritty romance... READ MORE
A small town historical feel wrapped up in drama and emotion
4.5 stars
I should know…know that when I read a Jojo Moyes book that it’s going to pack an emotional punch but with this blurb, I just didn’t see it comin... READ MORE
Well written fabulous book
Having previously read two of Jo Jo Moyes’ books, I expected a good read and this book didn’t disappoint.
The story begins in England, when Alice impulsiv... READ MORE
Amazing !!
Couldn't put down this book! Such an amazing and uplifting story, absolute page-turner!
Absolutely loved it
Moyes creates a fantastic story focused on the travelling librarians in Eastern Kentucky in the 1930s. The characters absolutely come to life, and her desc... READ MORE
Novel set in in 1930s KENTUCKY
Impulsive Alice Wright feels that she doesn’t fit in the stultifying world of middle-class Surrey in the 1930s, so when handsome American mine owner Bennet... READ MORE
Wonderfully Written
Loved this book, it was well written and I was so captivated by the story I couldn’t put it down for long.
An absolutely stunning read, don't miss it !!
Astoundingly brilliant !!
Never having read a Jojo Moyes before and coming off the back of some great 5 star reads this book had a lot to live up to and oh... READ MORE
thoroughly enjoyable read.
The Giver of Stars was the second by Jojo Moyes book I have read and enjoyed this one as much as the last one. The way Jojo structures the story makes you ... READ MORE
Absolutely wonderful, one of my best books of the year
The Giver of Stars is a spectacularly good book, the best I’ve read his year. Full of drama, angst, romance, heartache and heartbreak but above all based o... READ MORE
A bit soft!
I have read Jojo Moye's Me before You series, which I quite liked, but I not her others as I think they would be too sentimental for me. The setting is a d... READ MORE
Moyes at her best
Marvellous return to form for Jojo Moyes after the chic lit series based on best-selling Me Before You. In the 1930s feisty Alice waves her dull life in En... READ MORE
Beautiful!
This is one of the rare occasions that I closed the cover feeling like I was saying goodbye to friends. Beautifully written with a wonderful story of frien... READ MORE
A little known episode of Trailblazing women in the USA mountains Mid 20th C cleverly told
I loved this story. Women’s friendship, book loving adventures, horseback riding in the mountains, a strong Heroine figure confronting male and small town ... READ MORE
Never fails to impress
I was in no doubt that this book would be great and I was not disappointed. I have read all of Jojo Moyes books and they are all good. I feel transported i... READ MORE
Superb read
Once again JoJo Moyes has done it. A fabulous, entertaining read, I cried and I laughed, what a brilliant book.
Importance of books and friends
This book wasn't what I expected but an enjoyable read when I got to understand the characters. I would recommend it, slow start though, nearly didn't read... READ MORE
Giver of stars
I definitely give it Stars
Good read!
I'm not a big fan of romance books so I haven't read many of Jojo Moyes books. I liked the sound of this story as it was based on real events and it's abou... READ MORE
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