![]() ![]() So if you’re wondering, did I enjoy it, let me be clear I LOVED THIS BOOK. That is exactly what happened to me with ‘The Giver of Stars’, I still haven’t got over my book hangover and its been about three weeks since I finished it! I turned that final page and just sat hugged the book to my chest. Sometimes you fall so utterly head over heels in love with a book and it’s characters than when you reach the final page, you shed a little tear and spend the next few days completely bereft that you’ve left the world you came to adore. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they’re committed to their job–bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives. ![]() What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. ![]() But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. ![]() Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. ![]()
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