How did you decide to structure the novel as you did? The first few chapters highlight Athene’s wild beginnings, and then you soon turn to Suzanna’s much more conventional story. Did you ever consider alternating their perspectives chapter by chapter?

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THIS BOOK IS THAT FEAR MANIFESTED. I have read other books by Moyes and liked them but this book... it was a struggle to complete part 1. If it had been another author I wouldn't have made it through the first couple of chapters. I was not sure what I was getting into when I started this book. By the end I was enchanted by the story.I’ve read several of her books and have liked them a lot but I didn’t care for this. I did not enjoy the story and I didn’t feel or believe the romance. I hate cheaters so that was tainting everything for me. I never got pulled in and I wanted to so much. Even at the very end I thought the story would redeem itself but noooooo! This is more of a contemporary setting than I had expected, given the front cover of ball gowns and the start of the book when Vivi is young and going to her first unchaperoned ball.

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An early work from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes, the story of a young woman who opens an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past. I also felt sorry for Vivi, with the thankless task she has done in running her household, the reward being that she was taken for granted by everyone. An early work from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes, the story of a young woman who opens an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past. We are given stories about the people that relate to Suzanna past and present to flesh out her otherwise insipid life.

Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.

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Me aloque un poco cuando leí facetas de misma en Suzzana y en otros personajes interesantes que conforman esta historia tan sensatamente contada. Jojo inyecta la vida en sus personajes de una manera que ningún otro autor maneja. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jojo Moyes, the story of a young woman who finds new meaning in life after opening an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past Most of the book is about Suzanna, and her long-suffering husband, Neil. It's worth reading to the end because there it gets better. Read it, you might like it. Opinions are all my own. This book is about the people she meets and the community she connects to in ways she never thought she would. It’s filled with vivid, authentic characters that are my favorite kind — flawed.

Review of “Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc” by Hugh Aldersey-Williams La redacción es muy espesa. Muy espesa, repito (al menos a mi parecer). Y lenta... Salta de un personaje a otro y cuenta tantas cosas, incluso de cosas que pasaron con anterioridad (fuera de cámara por así decirlo), que es un sobreesfuerzo seguir adelante. 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. I can see how some readers might find this one a little slower that some of her other books, and it did take me a little longer than usual to get into it, but once I got going I really fell deeply into the story. You know, one of those where you don’t even know how long you’ve been reading, and time just stops because you’re totally immersed. There are some key themes that Jojo Moyes works through - the issue of lies and well-meant deception, versus the right to know is an important one. The roles that money and status play in the complex web of marriage is another.

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My name is Julie Filmer and I work from my garden studio in Norfolk, UK. I can't remember a time when I haven't stitched. It's an addiction, together with my obsession for collecting beautiful fabrics, trims and buttons! But the spectre of her mother still haunts Suzanna, setting in place a series of dramatic events. Only by confronting the past will she finally be able to face the future . . . Me Before You is one of my all-time favorites. I hesitated reading anything else by her, worrying it wouldn't compare to MBY or would somehow taint that good memory.I absolutely could not stand the main character. I found her annoying and depressing. Through out the entire book all you want to do is meet this main character just so you can tell her to grow up and stop complaining. Every time I would finish a chapter I felt like my life was just as crappy's as the main character. While Jojo Moyes does a great job in getting us inside a slightly depressed, deeply unhappy character's mind I still couldn't find myself caring at all about this main character. I didn't care if she ever found happiness or resolved any of her problems...all I wanted was to hurry up and finish the book. The first chapter of this book grabbed me by the heart and throat and the next chapter was SO FAR from that one that I was convinced I somehow started another book. (Chapter 1--midwife delivers her first baby in an impoverished town where "rich white people" take her baby for cash. Chapter 2 starts the bougie affair) Sadly we stay inside the bougie affair. While the series may have started off as a romance, Jojo Moyes has turned Louisa Clark’s story into one about learning to be, and to love, yourself.”— Bustle Don't get me wrong, it's a decent book, but clearly not her best, just an early try. We know she's improved as a writer enormously. We love her books, in fact, we love her! Maybe her publisher thought, her fans just want her books ALL THE TIME, why don't we give them this too. Ok, I'll buy that; but please make sure you put the original 2004 date as when written, and 2019 as the US publication. Otherwise, US fans will be confused.