The Giver of Stars: The spellbinding love story from the author of the global phenomenon Me Before You

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Just finished The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. Shame I read the last half hour on the tube (to see Official Secrets, which I loved) as I wept for the last few chapters. Such a lovely book, especially if you like books about librarians, which is a niche favourite for me!” another shared. For more stories like this, including celebrity news, beauty and fashion advice, savvy political commentary, and fascinating features, sign up for theMarie Claire newsletter. Discuss the various relationships between the women and the men in their lives. How does Margery manage to have a relationship where she and her partner regard each other as equals in a world where women were expected to subjugate themselves to men? How have things changed since then, and how are they still the same? This amazing, fantastic, funny, heartwarming, emotional, genuine book gave me HOPE, HAPPINESS, made me SO RELIEVED, CARELESS, LIGHT, OVER THE MOON IN LOVE WITH IT! I also liked Jojo Moyes’s writing. It’s unselfconscious and straightforward. She lets the story speak for itself, and it never feels forced or dull. She manages to infuse plenty of personality and character into places and people through specific details or dialogue, instead of relying on overlong descriptions.

This was posted two months before the Publishers Marketplace announcement of Richardson’s book and around the same time that Richardson’s manuscript was first submitted to various editors at Penguin Random House and other publishers. A heart-stopping read. Destined to be the novel that friends press upon each other Independent on Sunday The three other librarians are not given their individual character arcs, rather if something happens to them it is usually when either Alice or Margery is there, so that it can be thanks to our heroines that these other women gain self-assurance or whatnot. In fact Alice and Margery seems singlehandedly able to right any wrongs, save lives, unmask Van Cleve... The spellbinding story of love, community and the power of reading from the bestselling author of Me Before Youokay okay okay so where do I start? Maybe with the fact that this book is freaking awesome and I really really liked it? Sounds about right. I’m finishing my review with Jorge Luis Borges’ meaningful quote: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library” (I imagine the same, library next to liquor shop selling the best Chardonnays of the world! Cheers!)

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. Her writing is beautiful and whimsical with unique storylines Liv Arnold, author of Etched in Stone

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Let’s talk about why Alice married Bennett. What kind of life did she expect in America? And how did it compare to her reality? But ultimately the meaningful similarity is the topic, and you can’t claim ownership over a topic like that. To frame this in a different way, if the topics were different, would anyone even look twice at those similarities in minor details of two books?

I could only hope there was more than enough room for more than one” novel on the topic, Richardson said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.Literacy and censorship are significant issues in The Giver of Stars, issues that affect the women of the novel very differently from the men. Why do you think Moyes chose to focus on these topics? The story started well enough but the cheesiness of the story, the one-dimensional characters, the unnecessary melodrama, were all not to my taste. The book hops forward to Monday morning at the courthouse. The defense counsel begins making a closing statement, noting that the main link is the library book, which could have been placed near the body long after it was dead. Then, Kathleen interrupts with a witness, Verna McCullough.