In Moyes’s (The Last Letter from Your Lover) disarmingly moving love story, Louisa Clark leads a routine existence: at 26, she’s dully content with her job at the cafe in her small English town and Continue reading » In 1980, Joy’s young daughter Kate mysteriously flees the family home. Fifteen years later, Kate’s own daughter Sabine leaves London in search of grandparents she has never known. When the family is finally reunited, hidden tensions come to the surface, uncovering a dark secret which has been deeply buried for years . . .

Komei even introduces his old friend to bartender Senda -- "a character in a lot of my stories", he explains. Avand in vedere faptul ca este un roman scris de catre Jojo Moyes, automat pretențiile sunt destul de mari, si din pacate am ramas destul de dezamagita. M-am asteptat la cu totul altceva, inceputul oferind premize destul de bune.Si algo ha sabido hacer Jojo Moyes es crear tres mujeres una con más defectos que la otra, ninguna tiene algún rasgo rescatable, diferentes entre ellas, pero de las tres no se hace una, insoportables las tres. Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.

In più ho apprezzato la fine del nonno ma mi sarebbe piaciuto ci fosse in qualche modo un suo ruolo un po’ più decisivo nella storia e non rimanesse invece così marginale, nonostante assuma parte rilevante nei racconti del passato. I enjoyed this novel very much... the faded dilapidated glory of Ireland where horses and dogs are of prime importance... I read it from start to finish." - Rosamunde Pilcher Sabine hates Ireland. She hates the farm and horses, and finds her iron-willed grandmother Joy very difficult to get to know, understand and get on with. Sabine also finds it very difficult to communicate with her old grandfather, misses all her friends and life in London and is still bitter and exasperated with her mother. Over time however, as we learn about all three generations of women and understand them all a bit better, the fragile relationships between the three appear to be slowly mending themselves. Before that happens there is still a lot of heart-ache to go through for all three, secrets to be unearthed and bridges to be built. Without wanting to give anything away, the story behind the photograph is all too easy to guess and no surprise at all really, but again the story never developed. Sabine was your typical teenager, Kate came across as a weak woman who jumped in and out of relationships without a second thought, Joy was a misfit, and Edward, well apart from bits of information when they met you never really found out anything about him (except that he was a typical man of that period!). Other characters in the book never came to anything, in fact, I did wonder why a few of them were mentioned at all. Ich geb als erstes zu, dass ich mich zu Beginn des Buches mit allen drei schwer getan hatte. Weder Joy, Kate, noch Sabine haben mich überzeugt. Doch je mehr Zeit ich mit ihnen verbracht habe, je mehr ich über sie erfahren habe, um so mehr sind sie mir ans Herz gewachsen.Definitely not JoJo Moyes best work. This book was really hard to get in to as it just constantly jumped around. It felt like a lot of effort reading it. The story definitely improved in the last quarter, however the ending was rather disappointing it felt like a last minute ending just to finish it off. The focus of the story then shifts to rural Ireland in the late 1990s. Joy is now a grandmother and Sabine, the child of her estranged daughter, has come to stay. Sabine’s mother Kate is coming out of yet another bad relationship and has essentially dumped Sabine at Joy’s farm while she tries to get her life together. A young English woman living in Hong Kong in the 1950s, Joy is portrayed in the prologue as a shy, awkward misfit. She is unhappy in the small social world of expatriate British citizens, but she doesn’t seem to know what to do about it. Her mother resents her, she does not have any boyfriends, and she dislikes the dull social scene in which she is expected to participate. La narrazione viaggia su due piani temporali diversi, aspetto che mi piace tanto: quello del presente, sdoppiato tra l’Irlanda e Londra, e quello del passato dei due nonni da giovani, dal giorno in cui si sono conosciuti. The only reason I carried on reading was because I'd taken the book on holiday and had nothing else to do that day!

A real love that survived the slings and arrows of fate that soared, like some kind of 1950's Romeo and Juliet, above the petty and mundane. The kind of love you read about in books, that inspired songs, that lifted you like a bird yet stood solid, like a monolith, vast, all-encompassing, enduring. . . Pauline Sara Jo Moyes) е английска журналистка и писателка на бестселъри в жанра любовен роман. Пише под псевдонима Джоджо Мойс (на английски: Jojo Moyes). The local bars try to be islands of stability, despite a constant refrain that: "things are changing fast. For better or worse, no one can say", but the example in 'Pushover', of the one hostess who is all constancy, suggests that there's a disturbingly unnatural aspect to things not changing with the times. I liked all of the characters in this book and would have enjoyed spending more time with them. I especially would have liked reading more about Joy and Edward's life when they were first married and living in Hong Kong. That portion of the book reminded me of 'The Painted Veil' by M Somerset Maugham.Kate, hija de Joy, madre soltera, que es una madre abnegada, se la pasa quejándose todo el tiempo que transcurre el libro, que flojera de mujer y que falta de carácter.

English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese Some of the characters could have been brought to life a bit more clearly. We are never treated to any of Kate’s memories or get a real sense of what Kate’s perspective on her mother and daughter might be. The secondary characters, especially the men, also seemed rather flat – even Edward, the love of Joy’s life, loses most of his three-dimensional qualities after Joy marries him. There are some rather interesting paradoxes in Edward, but the reader only gets to hear about them secondhand from Joy. The flatness of these male characters limits the impact of the story’s male/female connections so that the romantic relationships pale in comparison to the vividness with which the women’s relationships are drawn. One of the things I loved about this book as with many of the authors novels is that you get a perspective from all three lead characters and a switch in time-lines from the past to the present day. This is such an effective tool in getting to know the characters as a reader and provides explanations for things that have happened which make them the person they are in modern times. I think I loved and got irritated by all three women in equal measures due to the consequences of certain actions in their pasts but I think one of the signs of a good story is that the characters should bring out some raw emotion in the reader. By the end of the novel, we have seen a change in Joy, Kate and Sabine for the better due to their experiences, but I also enjoyed that the author did not try and sugar-coat their lives in that it will be a “happy ever after” for them all, and that there would still be challenges ahead. There is quite a bit of overlap however, and one character, Senda, features in most of the episodes, including several in which he is the main character, first as a bartender at The Pot Still and then as owner of his own bar, Lui.Foreign Fruit“ от 2003 г. печели награда за най-добър роман на годината от Асоциацията на писателите на любовни романи. Bueno habiendo despotricado de estas tres mujeres, que a cual esta peor una que la otra, el libro en general no está mal, Jojo Moyes escribe muy bien, por lo tanto, su ejercicio de enlazar la historia familiar de estas tres mujeres, de acercarlas y retratar a una familia, los malos entendidos y los problemas entre padres e hijos, que, todo hay que decirlo, existen en todas las familias, ha logrado en general crear un libro que está pasable. Sheltering Rain“. След успеха на романа тя напуска работата си и се посвещава на писателската си кариера. Едновременно пише и статии за „ Дейли Телеграф“.