Three pairs of wool stockings, and in this weather you might as well go bare-?legged. Margery O’Hare tests her toes inside her boots, but feeling went a long time back and she winces at the thought of how they’re going to hurt when they warm up again. Only the narrow creek below moves confidently, its clear water murmuring and bubbling over the stony bed, headed down toward an endpoint nobody around here has ever seen. The snow is so deep the mule’s legs disappear up to his hocks, and every few strides he staggers and snorts suspiciously, checking for loose flints and holes under the endless white. Among the oak and hickory nothing stirs: wild animals are deep underground, soft pelts intertwined in narrow caves or hollowed-?out trunks. There’s no birdsong past dawn, not even in high summer, and especially not now, with the chill air so thick with moisture that it stills those few leaves clinging gamely to the branches. Three miles deep in the forest just below Arnott’s Ridge, and you’re in silence so dense it’s like you’re wading through it. Share your review of the book using the hashtag #ReadWithMC by November 28 for a chance to be featured on. The Giver of Stars is also the November pick for Marie Claire’s virtual book club, #ReadWithMC: a space for women who love books-by women!-and love talking about them, but prefer to do so from the comfort of their couch. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they’re committed to their job-bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives. What happens to them-and to the men they love-becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. Moyes currently lives Essex, England with her husband, Charles, and their three children.Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. You can find a collection of Jojo Moyes signed books below this author biography. In addition, she has been awarded the Romantic Novelist's Award not once, but twice. Moyes also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, which was released in 2016. Me Before You (2012) was nominated for the UK Galaxy Book Awards Book of the Year, and has sold over 3 million copies. The first three faced rejection, but the fourth, Sheltering Rain was published in 2002, and since then she has published over a dozen more novels. Moyes wrote four novels while juggling a newborn, her job as a journalist, and the pregnancy of her second child. Moyes is now a full-time novelist, but her previous professional adventures have included typing braille bank statements for NatWest, writing brochures, working as a minicab controller, and ten years as a journalist, both in Hong Kong and England. She attended Royal Holloway, University of London, where she got her first degree, and then City University where she studied Newspaper Journalism as a postgraduate. VJ Books Presents Author Jojo Moyes! Jojo Moyes was born in 1969, in Maidstone, England, and grew up in London. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Moyes, Jojo
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