The novel is based on the true story of the WPA Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky, who carried out Eleanor Roosevelt’s mandate that the poor in America have books and learn to read and write during the Depression. Margery and Alice are out on horseback, away from town in the 1930s, in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Their marriage is never consummated because of his inability to feel anything sexual without feeling guilty about it.) (After the fact, Cleve turns out to be a bad choice for a husband. In the excerpt, you’ll get a sense of Moyes’ familiarity with her characters and their conversation: Those speaking include Margery, an older woman from Baileyville, Kentucky and Alice Van Cleve, a younger Englishwoman who moves to America as the wife of handsome, wealthy American, Bennett Van Cleve. Here’s a sample a few paragraphs below of Moyes’s writing – historical fiction, a paragraph from “The Giver of Stars” page 58. (Not by the way, Jojo Moyes is a #1 New York Times bestseller of books including Still Me, After You, Me Before You, and others.)
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