Sheltering Rain - Rilegato

Moyes, Jojo

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0340819081 ISBN 13: 9780340819081

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, twenty-one-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiance again for a year. In 1980 eighteen-year-old Kate's rebellion is to run away to from County Wexford with her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents she doesn't know, and finds that time in Wexford seems to have stood still. When Sabine, her mother and grandmother are brought together, not only a deeply buried family secret is discovered, but also some fundamental truths: about the conflict between love and duty, about women's choices, and about mothers and daughters.

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Recensione

'A really really good book. One of the best I have read for you. I could identify with so much... It had everything going for it. It was well written with well rounded characters and a very good story to boot! Marks: 9/10. I am almost tempted to give it a 10/10!' - a Sarah Broadhurst reader

'This is a remarkable first novel, rich and deep and full of wonderfully realized characters. Oh, these women!' - Anne Rivers Siddons

A really really good book. One of the best I have read for you. I could identify with so much... It had everything going for it. It was well written with well rounded characters and a very good story to boot! Marks: 9/10. I am almost tempted to give it a 10/10! (a Sarah Broadhurst reader)

This is a remarkable first novel, rich and deep and full of wonderfully realized characters. Oh, these women! (Anne Rivers Siddons)

'This perceptive debut novel does the mothers-and-daughters thing in page-turning style . . . Be sure your bookmark is a hankie' - Elle

'Heartfelt and absorbing' - Christina Fotinelli, television producer, aged 27

A lovely book to sink into after a day of children and wiping (Kathy Williams, teacher and mum, aged 37)

Moving debut novel . . . The attitudes of these strong-minded women and their generations are masterfully captured (Hello)

Wonderfully captivating (Jane Farrow, school secretary, age 49)

Believable characters, faithfully described scenery, horses and hounds, mud and mould, this is good, old-fashioned storytelling at its best. Destined to be a bestseller, the book has a beautifully designed cover and, once opened, it is almost impossible to stop reading (North Shore Times, Australia)

Descrizione del libro

Set in colonial post-war Hong Kong and in a crumbling country house in southern Ireland, this is the story of three generations of women and their profoundly different experiences of love.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340819081
• ISBN 13: 9780340819081
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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