Sheltering Rain - Jojo Moyes

Sheltering Rain

By Jojo Moyes

  • Release Date: 2013-07-30
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 227 Ratings

Description

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes the touching, unforgettable story of three generations of Irish women faced with the fundamental truths of love, duty, and the unbreakable bond that unites mothers and daughters.

Estranged from her mother since she ran away from her rural Irish home as a young woman, Kate swore a future oath that she’d always be a friend to her daughter, Sabine. But history has a way of repeating itself, and Kate now faces an ever-widening chasm between herself and her daughter. With Sabine about to make her own journey to Ireland to see the grandmother Kate abandoned, Kate is left wondering how they ever made it here, and what she can do to close the gap between them. 

For Joy, seeing her granddaughter is a dream come true. After the painful separation from Kate, she’s looking forward to having time with Sabine. Yet almost as soon as the young woman arrives, the lack of common ground between them deflates her enthusiasm. And when Sabine’s impetuous, inquisitive nature forces Joy to face long-buried secrets from her past, she realizes that perhaps it’s time to finally heal old wounds.

“This perceptive…novel does the mother-and-daughter thing in page-turning style.”--Elle

Reviews

  • Not my favorite

    3
    By BPF72
    I felt like I spent the entire book waiting for the story to go somewhere... The ending seemed rushed and too easy - nothing felt truly resolved. I enjoyed the flashbacks into Joy's younger years and would've enjoyed reading more of that. I felt like this was a dysfunctional family but you never learned what really went wrong. Love Jojo Moyes but I wouldn't recommend this one to a friend.

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