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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

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26 May 2016
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Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, After You, Still Me, Silver Bay, The Giver of Stars, The Horse Dancer


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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.

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"[Moyes's] thoughtful tone and light touch make this a delightful read."--Publishers Weekly

"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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The captivating first novel from bestselling and RNA prize-winning author Jojo Moyes. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Author

This book was loosely inspired by the love affair between my Australian grandmother and Scottish grandfather, who met when he, as a young naval officer, was invited to an Australian young ladies "reception" during the Second World War. They fell in love, and within a week he had asked her to marry him. She then didn't see him for a year, but still had the faith to make a six weeks voyage on a troop ship to marry a man she didn't know. I realised that noone would have the faith to do that now, (unless they ended up on the Trisha show) and it got me thinking about how our expectations have changed, and how women's increased freedoms have not necessarily always worked out for the better.
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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Kate’s windscreen wipers finally gave up just outside Fishguard, sticking, then sliding resignedly down towards the bonnet, at the exact moment that the rain, which had been satisfied with heavy, chose to become torrential.
‘Oh, bugger,’ she said, swerving as she flicked the dashboard switch up and down. ‘I can’t 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. ‘It’s 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 can’t stop. We’re running late. And I can’t have you missing the ferry.’
Her mother was a generally mild-mannered soul, but Sabine knew that note of steel in Kate’s 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 Sabine’s lower lip jut unconsciously, and her body turn away in mute protest.
Kate, finely tuned to her daughter’s mercurial moods, noted it, and looked away. ‘You know, if you weren’t so busy being determined to hate this, you might just have a good time.’
‘How can I have a good time? You’re sending me to a place I’ve been to all of twice in my whole life, to stay in Bog City with a grandmother you like so much you haven’t seen her in bloody years, to be some kind of domestic skivvy while my grandfather pops his clogs. Great. Some holiday. I’m just gagging for it.’
‘Oh, look. They’re working again. Let’s 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 don’t know that your grandfather is that ill, he’s just frail, apparently. And I think it will be good for you to get away from London for a bit. You’ve 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 she’s 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 wasn’t going to admit it then she couldn’t 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 God’s sake, Mum, why can’t you just wear your bloody glasses?’
Kate wrenched the little car into the left lane, ignoring the beeps of protest behind her, and under Sabine’s 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 weren’t 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.

About the Author

Chris LaFata is a writer, musician and college professor. He lives near Denver, CO. www.chrislafata.com --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Synopsis

On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, twenty-one-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, eighteen-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 truths: about the conflict between love and duty, about women's choices, and about mothers and daughters. --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
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 450 pages

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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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bizzibea

Mother daughter struggle seen through tree generations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2020

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It toik me a little while to get into this book. Once I got used to all the characters and swaping scenes from the fifties to the noughties, I Thoroughly enjoyed it. Getting to read about why Joy was they way she was and her daughter Kate's resentment of her, which repeatet in the relationship with her oswn dsughter Sabine. Al three women seemed to have had the same mother daughter struggle to deal with. Would have loved to read more about their work with the horses and maybe discription of the beautiful countryside they rode in.

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jenny47

Not up to standard

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020

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I can see why novels before Me Before You were rejected by publishers. This was one of those. It’s boring. There have been numerous paragraphs that I’ve just skipped over without spoiling the story!
Me before You was a brilliant story. Why did that novel make this one any better?

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sukie

Interesting location

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2022

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Ireland was an interesting location for this story but I didn’t feel it had the impact of previous JoJo Moyes novels.
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.

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it’s never too late

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2022

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Jojo Moyes has the most amazing ability to capture our attention with family matters.

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 💙

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Maureen Hunt

One of the best novels by this author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2021

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Anybody who likes Jojo Moyes will be fascinated by this novel.

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Ingrid S

A beautiful story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2021

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A really compelling read, I couldn't put it down. As always wit JoJo Moyes the characters and detailed descriptions are brilliant. Addresses so many family secrets, with their exposure comes peace at last..... Read it! You'll love it.

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I am sure the recipient will be pleased with the book. It arrived promptly in good condition.

Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2019

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I have actually read this book twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times. Live Jo Jo Moyes. Her stories are always so different. Looking forward to reading another of hers and would recommend this one as X really good read

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MJB

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 January 2022

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I like a story that is not predictable and this fits the bill.
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.

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