“I could only hope there was more than enough room for more than one” novel on the topic, Richardson said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
Why? Because Richardson’s novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, which focuses on imagined characters in the same real-life historical setting, was set to be published in May 2019. All five women, but especially Alice and Margery, are written with such depth that readers may wish they, too, could join this tight circle of remarkable women.Ī heartwarming page turner, The Giver of Stars is certain to be Moyes’ next bestseller and should not be missed.Historical fiction writer Kim Michele Richardson was surprised when she learned in March that English author Jojo Moyes, most famous for her bestselling Me Before You romance trilogy, would be publishing The Giver of Stars, a historical novel about the real-life Pack Horse Library project in Kentucky, on Oct. Moyes has written unforgettable characters who come alive on the page.
Moyes’ research is evident, as her writing completely immerses readers in the world of a small, Depression-era coal-mining town-the class structure, the ignorance and the violence, as well as the overwhelming beauty of the surroundings and the strength of character required to survive. Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Me Before You, has written a wonderful novel based on the real-life Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky. The library’s future is threatened, however, when Margery and Alice step too far outside the accepted norms of society, angering the powerful patriarchy of the town. In return, they find companionship and fulfillment. Together, these women and their horses face hardship and danger to bring books and information to the poverty-stricken backwoods of Kentucky. As a librarian, Alice joins four others: unconventional Margery, who lives by her own rules boisterous Beth, who has eight brothers Izzy, the library organizer’s pampered daughter, who wears a leg brace and has a beautiful voice and Sophia, a black woman who risks backlash to work for the mobile library, in violation of the state’s segregation laws. When Eleanor Roosevelt creates a mobile library system as part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, Alice volunteers to become one of the librarians on horseback to escape her father-in-law’s house.
However, soon after arriving in Bennet’s small town in Depression-era Kentucky, Alice realizes that problems in her marriage, a controlling father-in-law and small-town gossip are equally suffocating. Ill-suited to the stultifying environment and prospects of England, Alice jumps at the chance to escape to America by marrying Bennet, the wealthy, handsome son of a coal-mine owner.
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