Jess is an ever optimistic woman who is broke, has two eccentric and brilliant kids and a deadbeat husband that took off to live with his mum two years ago. Her daughter Tanzie is truly a genius when it comes to maths and has been invited to compete in a Maths Olympiad where if she wins, she can ...
J'avais une certaine appréhension après le coup de cœur que j'avais eu pour Avant toi, peur d'être déçue.C'est une histoire qui court sur deux époques, les années 60 et les années 2000, avec deux femmes qui sont reliées par une lettre. Une simple lettre qui va pourtant bouleverser leurs vies.L'au...
:Spoiler Alert:To be or not to be-Hamlet asked. We did not have a answer then; we don't have the answer now.In 'Me before you' Jojo Moyes gives her answer.I almost did not read the book as book starts at a very slow; actually boring pace.But I persevered because this was recommended to me by some...
This was an excellent book, I have been on a historical fiction kick for a while and this is probably one of the best I have read. Only bad thing about historical fiction is it is hard to follow if you aren't up to speed on the history itself. This was WWI and I have little knowledge of it, but t...
I enjoyed this Jojo Moyes book greatly because the premise was different. Her characters are rich and real. My only complaint was how quickly the characters looked past their differences and fell for each other. It seemed a little forced, but so was Me Before You. I do appreciate Jojo Moyes' abi...
Very well done chick lit (or contemporary romance), with a realistic portrayal of a struggling single mother scraping along at the bottom. Then it becomes a road trip as a computer geek facing major problems of his own offers to help get the family to a math Olympiad in Scotland that will make it...
As always Jojo Moyes is perfect narrator and knows how to keep readers hooked.Reminds me of "Good year" by Peter Mayle, but minus humor which actually was the best part.OK, I got a lot interesting facts about whales. Story itself looks not real by many aspects: *** Spoiler alert ***- She ...
My mother recommended that I read this book after she described it as "the best book she had ever read." My mom and I have the same tastes when it comes to books, which is why I felt disappointed. Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad story. I just felt it was extremely predictable. I also found ...
Questo è uno di quei romanzi che ti dispiace finire. E' una storia d'amore (anzi due), ma ha degli elementi che vanno al di là del genere romance. Peccato che la Moyes sia, per alcuni tratti, un po' troppo prolissa, soprattutto nella prima parte della narrazione passata.Il punto vincente di quest...
I couldn't stop reading this amazing love story. And once I've finished it I couldn't stop crying! It is movingly beautiful, one of those stories that you will remember forever, one that takes hold of your heart and makes you think about love and life. Personally I am wary of love stories, but th...
Another enjoyable read from Jojo Moyes. This book is narrated by all the primary characters, with each having separate chapters, so it is interesting to follow the plot from different perspectives. Moyes is excellent at giving them all individual voices. The setting is an old whaling community...
At 16, Sabine Ballantyne is a typical London teen. She’s tight with a few of her mates, she rarely goes anywhere without her iPod, and she has her TV favorites she can’t imagine ever not watching. At 35, her mom, Kate, is perhaps a bit less typical. She has made it a habit of engaging in adult...
After finding a new favourite author in the form of Jojo Moyes, I’m now on a mission to read everything she ever wrote and today’s review is on The Peacock Emporium, published in 2004. Similar to the previous book I read – Foreign Fruit, the story is set in two time frames, the first is in the 19...
On October 27, 1945 the HMS Victorious set off for the first of three trips to transport WWII servicemen and war brides. Jojo Moyes's own grandmother was one of those brides, traveling from Australia to England to be with her husband. According to the acknowledgements, her story and others inspir...
Skinner and Mrs H. Dill who both have wedding anniversaries this week. Mrs Skinner has been married two years and Mrs Dill a year and although this happy occasion may find them separated from their husbands we sincerely hope that this will be the last anniversary they will spend apart and wish th...
She cannot say how long she has sat there. Its wire sides are almost obscured with padlocks on which people have inscribed their initials, and all along it tourists stoop, reading the initials on the little pieces of metal, scrawled in permanent pen or engraved by those with forethought. Some tak...
The thing that haunted him, that left his stomach in toxic knots, his food like ashes on his tongue, was that she’d kept it, silent, hidden, while watching his business crumble around him. That she had comforted him even, while all the time she’d held the wherewithal to make it better, the one th...
The tables of the Shamrock and Clover were already full by breakfast time; a plump forty-something businessman, whose drooping head suggested an early start on the hard stuff, gazed blearily up at me, cradling his glass between fat hands. Vera was at the far end, angrily shifting tables and peopl...
That the endless chill, the leaks and draughts would penetrate what remained of the roof, and damp would seep along the ground from the lake. But now that summer was here, she had found that warmer weather brought its own brand of insurgence to her home. It was as if Nature knew that the last Pot...
Can remind you of deets if you lose the card. [email protected]: I won’t forget. Whole night engraved on my memory. ;-) [email protected]: Did you do what I told you? [email protected]: Just sorting now. Ed.Nicholls@mayf...