Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond. But when I first read the synopsis about The Giver of Stars. Books provide people with education and entertainment they change lives as they. She’s a New York Times bestseller and her novel Me Before You became a movie. Written by Jojo Moyes Review by Sarah Johnson. Jojo Moyes is one of the most successful authors around today. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.īased on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes is a fictional tale about the real-life Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention.

What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. Alice has moved there from England, after a whirlwind marriage to the handsome and charming. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. The Giver of Stars is set in Kentucky in the Depression years. 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. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England.

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