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**From the bestselling author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture**
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'Moyes evokes the strictures of time beautifully, as well as the enervating charms of a sleepy resort.' - Good Housekeeping
In the 1950s seaside town of Merham, everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee living with the respectable Holden family, loves it, while the Holdens' daughter Celia opposes its constraints.
When a group of bohemians move into Arcadia, a grand Art Deco house on the seafront, Lottie and Celia are tempted into their alternative lifestyle. What ensues at the house has tragic and long-lasting consequences for all.
Now almost fifty years on, Arcadia and its past secrets return to life, prompting the question: can you ever leave your past behind?
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'Blissful, romantic reading' - Company
'Delightful' - Publishers Weekly
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date26 May 2016
- File size2452 KB
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Amazon Review
The book opens in the 1950s with Lottie, an evacuee who's staying with the respectable Holden family and their daughter Celia, where "noise and suppressed hysteria" are the norm. Their small town ways are dramatically disrupted when Arcadia, the Art Deco house overlooking the sea, is taken over by a fast and Bohemian set where "nude painting and uncertain domestic situations" are the order of the day. Adeline, the Queen Bee in the set-up, declares that Lottie needs "to learn to dream". Good advice, except that her dream comes in the shape of Guy, the handsome son of a melon and banana importer. Lottie is instantly smitten, but Guy is engaged to Celia. Forbidden fruit, indeed.
Fast forward to the present and the perils of Daisy Parker. She's has been abandoned by her partner, is the new mother of a little baby, and has taken on the all-consuming project of renovating Arcadia for a businessman called Jones. The owner of the "ocean liner" house, has, up until recently been Lottie Swift. In a series of emotionally rewarding and devastating encounters secrets from the past and present are tantalisingly revealed. --Eithne Farry
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Book Description
Review
Even if the sun isn't shining, this book will make you feel like it is . . . Moyes evokes the strictures of the time beautifully, as well as the enervating charms of a sleepy resort (Good Housekeeping)
'Moyes again proves herself a worthy successor to Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher with her second novel.' - Publishers Weekly
Wonderful full-blooded traditional storytelling, but with a fresh slant (Sarah Harrison)
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 on Sheltering Rain)
Blissful, romantic reading (Company)
'If you like evocative, well-written love stories then this could be your bag.' - Hello
'throbs with romance, intrigue and betrayal.' Women and Home (Women and Home) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
From the Publisher
FOREIGN FRUIT has all those strengths and more. Like the previous novel, it spans two periods - the Fifties and the present day - and reaches right inside characters young and old. It is even more accomplished than SHELTERING RAIN, and I am sure that the critics are right: anyone who likes Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher will love this novel.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Product details
- ASIN : B0074OD6VU
- Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton (26 May 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 2452 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 410 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 3,630 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 13 in Women's Popular Fiction
- 136 in Women's Historical Fiction
- 212 in Women's Literary Fiction (Kindle Store)
- Customer reviews:
About the author

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.
Bio from Goodreads.
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Nevertheless, the mistress of literary deception and creativity combine to make a fascinating entwined story of love’s lived and lost and finally won.
Well worth reading. Jo Jo wins again!