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Loosely based on the story of her own grandparents, Sheltering Rain is the impressive debut of U.K. author Jojo Moyes. Joy and her husband, edward, meet during coronation festivities in Hong Kong in 1953. Forty years later, they are living on a ramshackle Irish estate, where edward's health is rapidly declining. Their spunky granddaughter Sabine arrives and is at first miserable in the grim surroundings. Weeks later, she is followed by her flighty mother, Kate, from whom Joy has been estranged for years. There are plenty of fireworks among the three and the strong supporting cast as old secrets come to the surface in this absorbing family drama. National advertising.
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Touchy relationships among several generations of mothers and daughters mark this first novel by British journalist Moyes. Chapters alternate between the early days of Joy and Edward Ballayntyne's marriage in Hong Kong and their present-day struggles with London-based daughter Kate and granddaughter Sabine. At 15, Sabine despises her single mother, whose frequent change of boyfriends keeps their household in flux. While Kate irons out her latest man problem, she sends Sabine to live on the family estate in Ireland with her estranged parents, whose passion is horse breeding. Grandmother is coldly stern, and grandfather is ancient and bedridden. Their employee, Thom, teaches Sabine to ride horses, a pastime that thaws the teenager's sullenness. When Kate visits Ireland for the first time since she fled ten years earlier, she is amazed to find her daughter not only happily tending horses but also her difficult grandparents. But while things may be healing on the home front, Kate's romantic life is still turbulent: she encounters an old flame from her younger days on the estate, which reopens old wounds. The Irish setting and warmly described family relationships will appeal to fans of Maeve Binchy. Recommended. Carol J. Bissett, New Braunfels P.L., TX
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Jojo Moyes has a gift, as evidenced by this book. She has the ability to create characters and situations that are completely believable. She presents a wide range of both, yet her details are so accurate, the book doesn't suffer. The story is a romance, yet its not all sex. There is actually a plot.
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I bought the book because I really loved, The last letter from your lover and Me before you but I am really disappointed in this book. I started skipping paragraphs, then pages and then finally quit. It wasn't getting anywhere. Every time I thought it was moving it came to an abrupt stop and continued on in its boring previous rambling.
Sorry Jojo, I did not like this book
Sorry Jojo, I did not like this book
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on April 28, 2013
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JoJO Moyes has yet to disappoint and Sheltering Rain is another triumph. She writes with such depth of emotion, with such passion, sensitivity and grace. I have read all her books and recommend them highly. She even responds to fan email!
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Jojo Moyes is a wonderful author! Sheltering Rain was so unique to what teenagers go through and their rebellious stage and it's always great when people come together in the end and love prevails....love that in her books!
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on April 17, 2012
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I bought this partly (I think) because it was supposed to be an autobiographical novel, and partly because it was about difficult mother-daughter relationships (on which it excelled). I took it along on a trip through the South, and it was good reading -- partly because of the setting, partly because of the suspense created because the novel starts with the original romance and then drops it and doesn't come back to it until later, so you wonder what has happened and why people seem to have changed.... I thought the story got a little implausible toward the end, but I was still compelled to sit up past when I should have gone to sleep, to see how things came out. As a romance it's probably a four-star book.
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You get taken in from the very beginning and you're held beyond the end! It does not disappoint! A good, good story!!!
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More good storytelling from Jojo Moyes. An absorbing read.
This book tells the story of three generations of Irish women:
• Joy - raised among high British society in Hong Kong, who marries a handsome naval officer at the end of a whirlwind romance
• Kate - Joy's daughter, a single mom, whose rash actions as a teenager in the 60's force her to leave the family horse farm in Ireland, move to London, and plunge into a series of less-than-satisfactory relationships with men
• Sabine - Kate's daughter, a teenager struggling to determine her own identity as she explores what it means to be part of a family
As the chapters jump from woman to woman, slowly revealing each woman's full story, the characters and reader learn how powerful long-held secrets can be in shaping mother-daughter relationships and how difficult it is for any child to understand the lives of and decisions made by their parents.
This book tells the story of three generations of Irish women:
• Joy - raised among high British society in Hong Kong, who marries a handsome naval officer at the end of a whirlwind romance
• Kate - Joy's daughter, a single mom, whose rash actions as a teenager in the 60's force her to leave the family horse farm in Ireland, move to London, and plunge into a series of less-than-satisfactory relationships with men
• Sabine - Kate's daughter, a teenager struggling to determine her own identity as she explores what it means to be part of a family
As the chapters jump from woman to woman, slowly revealing each woman's full story, the characters and reader learn how powerful long-held secrets can be in shaping mother-daughter relationships and how difficult it is for any child to understand the lives of and decisions made by their parents.
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on July 13, 2014
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Jojo Moyes takes her readers (at least this one) to places & spaces in the mind that I haven't experienced with any other writer. She's simply the best!
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