Sheltering Rain
The captivating debut novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You , After You and the new bestseller Still Me . On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, 21-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiance again for a [...]
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Auteur : Jojo MOYES
Editeur : Hodder And Stoughton
Date parution : 04/2013CB Google/Apple Pay, Chèque, Virement
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The captivating debut novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You , After You and the new bestseller Still Me . On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, 21-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, 18-year-old Patricia'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 is a deeply buried family secret is discovered, but also some fundamental about the conflict between love and duty, about women's choices, and about mothers and daughters. 'Perceptive debut novel . . . Be sure that your bookmark is a hankie.' - Elle
Auteurs :Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.
Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.