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Sheltering Rain

By: Jojo Moyes
Narrated by: Judith Boyd
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On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and 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. Fifteen years later, when Sabine, her mother and grandmother are brought together, not only 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. Romance China
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This is JoJo Moyes' earliest novel and does suffer in comparison with her later works. The story is a fairly standard family drama based around upper middle class colonial types living a life of decaying gentility in rural Ireland and nursing a few bitter secrets. I must admit I didn't really warm to the fox hunting horsey theme and was slightly aghast that a North London vegetarian teenager could change her principles quite so easily. Her mother is irritatingly daffy and the grandmother is very hard to love, but despite this the story is reasonably interesting and I stuck with it to the end. The narrator was good but I did get a bit weary of the plummy accents. If you haven't read a JoJo Moyes book before, I recommend you don't start with this one.

So So JoJo

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No there would be many others further up the list. The characters were a tad flat

If you’ve listened to books by Jojo Moyes before, how does this one compare?

Not her at her best out of the 4 I have read this would de at the bottom

What aspect of Judith Boyd’s performance might you have changed?

None

Did Sheltering Rain inspire you to do anything?

No

Average book not Jojo at her best

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Really enjoyed yet another of Jojo Moyes books . Well narrated . would recommend

a good story

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loved it, loved how JoJo Moynes describes characters and builds the story. really enjoyed the performance of the English characters in the story and overall really enjoyed it. just small things like pronunciation of Roisin bothered me if you're Irish you'll understand but lovely story and overall I d recommend it

love the story

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Nicely written, well researched, but can only manage this sort of book once in a while, and even then I question why I did. Confess it did make me teary somewhere in the beginning chapters, I liked that, but the rest...I would probably have loved it when I was a teenager. Narrator is very good at accents, can’t fault her at all, although perhaps her cool tones are a bit squeaky clean for me. I had to see why the author is a best selling writer, I still don’t know really, there’s a lot of stuff like this out there, but if this book makes people happy, then...(shrug) it’s ok I guess.

Nicely written

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