The Giver of Stars
By jojo
Moyes
I found this book a little slow to
start with, but I needed to read something a bit different as I am always
reading the same genre of books and I got given this as a present.
Alice came
from England to the USA Kentucky in the late 1930’s married to a wealthy
American she was excited to start her new life and leave her family behind.
But uptight
and stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky where her husband favors work over her and
with a domineering father-in-law, life is not what she had hoped for.
Margery’s on a mission to help
start a packhorse library and lend books to the poor on horseback through the
rugged mountainside. The few women they get to help, they form a pack so close
that the women become the best of friends.
But when
Baileyville turns against them as being women in that era, having an opinion or
being an outspoken one at that was not favored upon, the women come into
trouble.
It turns
out I was quite captivated by this book. It was frustrating how men seem to get
away with everything in those days and exciting at the same time waiting to see
the women bounce back and claim what is
theirs…a life, a life worth of freedom to be able to work, speak and be free.
Rating 7/10
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