Inspired by a remarkable true story, The Giver of Stars features five incredible women who will prove to be every bit as beloved as Lou Clark, the unforgettable heroine of Me Before You. Trekking alone under big open skies, through wild mountain forests, Alice, Margery and their fellow sisters of the trail discover freedom, friendship – and a life to call their own.īut when Baileyville turns against them, will their belief in one another – and the power of the written word – be enough to save them? Margery’s on a mission to spread the wonder of books and reading to the poor and lost – and she needs Alice’s help. While writing and researching The Giver of Stars, author Jojo Moyes visited Kentucky several times, stayed in a tiny cabin on the side of a mountain, rode horses along the trails, and met the people of Kentucky. That is, until she meets Margery O’Hare – daughter of a notorious felon and a troublesome woman the town wishes to forget. The Giver of Stars is a 2019 historical fiction novel by Jojo Moyes about packhorse librarians in a remote area of Kentucky. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.’Įngland, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett van Cleve and leave her home and family behind.īut stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife, and is dominated by his overbearing father, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for.

‘Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ME BEFORE YOU, AFTER YOU AND STILL ME When she arrives in Kentucky, she soon realizes that she’s expected to be a silent woman who cooks, cleans, and births babies. DON’T MISS THE STANDALONE NEW NOVEL FROM JOJO MOYES, THE NO. The Giver of Stars Character Analysis Alice Van Cleve Alice begins as a purportedly rebellious, somewhat naïve newlywed from England who dreams of glitz and glamour in the United States.

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