Showing results for title "The Giver of Stars", by author "Jojo Moyes" in Literature & Fiction

Alice is stifled, bored, and misunderstood. So when she meets wealthy and handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, she is quickly swept off her feet. Marrying him and moving to America seems like a great adventure - but life as a newlywed in stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky, is not at all what she hoped for. Until, that is, she responds to a call for volunteers to start a travelling library, surprising herself by saying yes, before her husband can say no.

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. 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. 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.

Inspirada por la sed de aventuras y el deseo de abandonar la monotonía de Inglaterra, Alice Wright se enamora de un atractivo americano y toma la impulsiva decisión de aceptar su propuesta de matrimonio. Pero su nueva vida en la pequeña y conservadora ciudad minera de Kentucky en la que Alice se instala con su marido y su autoritario suegro en medio de la Gran Depresión resulta aún más claustrofóbica. Hasta que conoce a Margery O'Hare. Independiente y deslenguada, Margery no ha pedido el permiso de un hombre para nada en toda su vida.