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**From the bestselling author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture**
The captivating debut novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You Still Me and The Giver of Stars.
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'Page-turning . . . Be sure that your bookmark is a hankie.' - Elle
When twenty-one year old Joy meets handsome naval officer Edward at an ex-pat party in 1950s Hong Kong, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. Quickly wedded, she leaves to travel the world with her new husband. But she soon discovers that married life isn't all that it seems . . .
In 1980, Joy's young daughter Kate mysteriously flees the family home. Fifteen years later, Kate's own daughter Sabine leaves London in search of grandparents she has never known. When the family is finally reunited, hidden tensions come to the surface, uncovering a dark secret which has been deeply buried for years . . .
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'An enjoyable read' - Sunday Express
'An emotional roller-coaster' - Company
'Beautiful and very moving' - Lesley Pearse
'Rich and deep and full of wonderfully realised characters' - Anne Rivers Siddons
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date26 May 2016
- File size2036 KB
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From the Back Cover
In the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher comes an evocative novel by a talented new writer.
At a celebration in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, the rebellious young Joy falls in love at first sight and marries the man of her dreams. Now, forty years later, Joy's fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Sabine, seeks shelter at her grandparents' house in Ireland, the very place from which her mother, Kate, ran years before. Suddenly, with an impetuous and inquisitive young woman in the house, Joy finds herself facing the secrets buried in her past.
Troubled by her worsening relationship with Sabine, Kate returns to Ireland. When the three women come together, they discover some fundamental truths about love, duty, and the relationships between mothers and daughters.
Jojo Moyes effortlessly weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of character, time, and place. The result is a heartwarming and believably real novel that sets the benchmark for a new generation of storytelling.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Review
"A delicious read."--Library Journal
"Accomplished debut...in style and substance Moyes is a worthy addition to [Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy's] ranks....Fluidly paced and cast with engaging characters."--Booklist
"...a tremendously gifted storyteller..."--Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife
"I enjoyed Sheltering Rain very much."--Rosamunde Pilcher
"This is a remarkable first novel, rich and deep and full of wonderfully realized characters. Oh, these women!"--Anne Rivers Siddons --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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From the Author
The book itself weaves two love stories through fifty years, and three generations of a family at war with itself. It is a combination of things; a saga, with comedy and tragedy, an epic love story, and a mystery. I wanted to give value for money!
I have been astonished by the reception to the book, and to the fact that that a book about such a specific set of characters has been sold now in ten countries. Those who have read it seem to recognise themselves in someone in it - not always those characters I would have expected.
I hope those who read it will be taken somewhere they hadn't expected to go, that they will be swept up, entertained and moved.
All I ever really wanted was to write a good story, the kind that, like a good film, stays with you for a little while after you've finished it. I hope, if you read this book, it will at least do that for you. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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Oh, bugger, she said, swerving as she flicked the dashboard switch up and down. I cant see a thing. Sweetheart, if I pull over at the next lay-by, could you reach your arm out and give the screen a wipe?
Sabine pulled her knees up into her chest and scowled at her mother. Its not going to make the slightest difference. We might as well just stop.
Kate pulled the car to a standstill, wound down her window and tried to wipe her half of the windscreen with the end of her velvet scarf. Well, we cant stop. Were running late. And I cant have you missing the ferry.
Her mother was a generally mild-mannered soul, but Sabine knew that note of steel in Kates voice, that it said nothing short of a tsunami was going to prevent Sabine getting on that ferry. It was not a huge surprise: it was a note she had come up against many times in the past three weeks, but having to hear yet another reinforcement of her ultimate powerlessness in the face of her mother made Sabines lower lip jut unconsciously, and her body turn away in mute protest.
Kate, finely tuned to her daughters mercurial moods, noted it, and looked away. You know, if you werent so busy being determined to hate this, you might just have a good time.
How can I have a good time? Youre sending me to a place Ive been to all of twice in my whole life, to stay in Bog City with a grandmother you like so much you havent seen her in bloody years, to be some kind of domestic skivvy while my grandfather pops his clogs. Great. Some holiday. Im just gagging for it.
Oh, look. Theyre working again. Lets see if we can make it to the port. Kate wrenched the wheel, and the battered Volkswagen lurched forward on to the wet road, sending tea-coloured fans of spray up at each side window. Look. We dont know that your grandfather is that ill, hes just frail, apparently. And I think it will be good for you to get away from London for a bit. Youve hardly met your granny at all, and it will be nice for you to see a bit of each other before she gets too old, or you go travelling or whatever.
Sabine stared determinedly out of her side window. Granny. You make it sound like Happy Families.
And I know shes ever so grateful for the help.
Still she refused to look. She knew bloody well why she was being shipped off to Ireland, and her mother knew it, and if she was such a bloody hypocrite that she wasnt going to admit it then she couldnt expect Sabine to be straight with her either.
Left lane, she said, still not turning round.
What?
Left lane. You need to be in the left lane for the ferry terminal. Oh, for Gods sake, Mum, why cant you just wear your bloody glasses?
Kate wrenched the little car into the left lane, ignoring the beeps of protest behind her, and under Sabines bad-tempered direction eased it over to the windswept sign that indicated Foot Passengers. She drove until she could see a place to park, a grey, windswept Tarmac desert, in the shadow of a featureless grey Lubyanka. Why do they make offices look so dispiriting? she wondered, absently. As if people werent already miserable enough when they got there. When the car and its wipers stopped again, the rain obligingly ensured that the building was swiftly erased, turning everything outside into an impressionistic blur.
Kate, for whom most things without her glasses were an impressionistic blur, gazed at the outline of her daughter and wished suddenly that they could have the kind of fond farewells that she was sure other mothers and daughters practised. She wanted to tell her she was bitterly sorry that Geoff was going, and that for the third time in her young life their domestic arrangements were going to be in upheaval. She wanted to tell her that she was sending her to Ireland to protect her, to save her from witnessing the kind of bitter scenes that she and Geoff had barely been suppressing as they ended their six-year relationship, and she wanted to tell her that even though Sabine and Kate no longer had any kind of relationship, Kate wanted her to feel like she had some kind of grandmother, someone other than just her.
But Sabine always made it impossible for her to say anything: she was seemingly covered in an ever-growing coat of spikes, like a glamorous, sulky little porcupine. If Kate told her she loved her she was told off for being so Little House on the Prairie. If she reached out to hug her, she felt her child flinch in her arms. How did this come about? she asked herself repeatedly. I was so determined that our relationship would be different, that you would have all the freedoms I was denied. That we would be friends. How did you come to despise me? --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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- ASIN : B0074OKC1M
- Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton (26 May 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 2036 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 450 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,871 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 180 in Historical Literary Fiction
- 221 in Women's Historical Fiction
- 238 in Romance Literary Fiction
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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.
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Me before You was a brilliant story. Why did that novel make this one any better?
I failed to understand the main theme , usually very evident in JoJo Moyes stories. The characters were not as memorable either.
I have always been impressed by the detailed research that JoJo Moyes did with her novels, all in all I was disappointed.
Sheltering rain will have you in tears on many occasions it’s a beautiful account of generations of a particular family and their times spent overseas and then predominantly in Ireland and the strange comfort from the Irish weather (you need to live with it to fully understand).
It shows a real understanding and interest in human beings to be able to put this book into words and paint such vivid images for us to follow. I am never disappointed in Jojo Moyes’s books. I think I only have a couple more to read ..... now that will be a huge disappointment when I finally come to the end hopefully she will have written a new book by then. Thank you Jojo 💙
Shows how events mould your life - sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Things are not always what they seem to be. A long and enjoyable read.