Sheltering Rain: the captivating and emotional novel from the author of Me Before You

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Sheltering Rain is deeply moving and yet unnervingly depressing. It makes me feel depressed anyway even if it's not depressing. I love Jojo Moyes but this is not one of her best. Let me clarify things first, I didn't love the book as much as I'd loved her other novels, though I had a great time reading it and to say that I cried when the story ended is overrated. But somewhere deep in my heart I couldn't deny the fact that I feel sad, a trifle breathless with it all when the last sentence had been delivered. Ich geb als erstes zu, dass ich mich zu Beginn des Buches mit allen drei schwer getan hatte. Weder Joy, Kate, noch Sabine haben mich überzeugt. Doch je mehr Zeit ich mit ihnen verbracht habe, je mehr ich über sie erfahren habe, um so mehr sind sie mir ans Herz gewachsen.

I chose this book for my 2014 Book Bingo challenge, for the square "the first book of a favorite author". I've read quite a few novels by Moyes and I loved "Me Before You" so she comes as close to a favorite author as anyone else does. The local bars try to be islands of stability, despite a constant refrain that: "things are changing fast. For better or worse, no one can say", but the example in 'Pushover', of the one hostess who is all constancy, suggests that there's a disturbingly unnatural aspect to things not changing with the times. 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.

Some of the characters could have been brought to life a bit more clearly. We are never treated to any of Kate’s memories or get a real sense of what Kate’s perspective on her mother and daughter might be. The secondary characters, especially the men, also seemed rather flat – even Edward, the love of Joy’s life, loses most of his three-dimensional qualities after Joy marries him. There are some rather interesting paradoxes in Edward, but the reader only gets to hear about them secondhand from Joy. The flatness of these male characters limits the impact of the story’s male/female connections so that the romantic relationships pale in comparison to the vividness with which the women’s relationships are drawn.

Sabine hates Ireland. She hates the farm and horses, and finds her iron-willed grandmother Joy very difficult to get to know, understand and get on with. Sabine also finds it very difficult to communicate with her old grandfather, misses all her friends and life in London and is still bitter and exasperated with her mother. Over time however, as we learn about all three generations of women and understand them all a bit better, the fragile relationships between the three appear to be slowly mending themselves. Before that happens there is still a lot of heart-ache to go through for all three, secrets to be unearthed and bridges to be built. Jojo es una autora que me gusta muchísimo y, aprovechando las preciosas ediciones en bolsillo que han sacado de sus libros, compré este para ver qué tal es su primera novela. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese I think the title of the book is so important. These are women who have no voice in their community,… This, too, is one of the chapters in which criminal activity figures at least in part of the episode, and Hanmura ties these instances in cleverly, the crimes and criminals repeatedly not quite what they first appear.This changes at a party held in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. Joy gets embarrassingly drunk and ends up meeting Edward, a young naval officer who will become the love of her life. After only two meetings, they decide to marry. Senda, too, mulls over staying single, and in the title-chapter has a fling that seems to be true love, leading him to consider settling down -- only to find that he's been used. A young English woman living in Hong Kong in the 1950s, Joy is portrayed in the prologue as a shy, awkward misfit. She is unhappy in the small social world of expatriate British citizens, but she doesn’t seem to know what to do about it. Her mother resents her, she does not have any boyfriends, and she dislikes the dull social scene in which she is expected to participate. Since I often find the plots to be long and terribly slow-moving and the characterization to be both flat and unrealistically glamorous, the family saga is usually one of my least favorite forms of fiction. Sheltering Rain, a debut novel from the United Kingdom, is blessedly different. Sheltering Rain“. След успеха на романа тя напуска работата си и се посвещава на писателската си кариера. Едновременно пише и статии за „ Дейли Телеграф“.

Una historia atrapante y recomendable. La vida de tres generaciones que, por falta de comunicación, terminaron distanciados, hasta que algo pasa, que las hace juntarse de nuevo; y es a partir de eso, que empieza un proceso de conocerse entre ellas, de buscar las cosas que las separaron y esperar, que no sea demasiado tarde para tener una verdadera relación familiar.In 1980, Joy's young daughter Kate mysteriously flees the family home. Fifteen years later, Kate's own daughter Sabine leaves London in search of grandparents she has never known. When the family is finally reunited, hidden tensions come to the surface, uncovering a dark secret which has been deeply buried for years . . . Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004. En algunos momentos, la actitud de Kate y Sabina se me hacían más de pataleta juvenil que un problema de fondo; mientras que Joy, es muy parecida a la mamá que aparece en Jardín de invierno de Kristin Hannah. And especially how the relationships between all three of them evolved. It was just such a great journey, and so beautiful to see them all growing closer.

Ich hätte gerne ein Buch, bei dem es sich um Annie dreht, denn aaaah, sie ist mir ans Herz gewachsen und ich will mehr von ihr. Bestselling British author Moyes (Me Before You) blends a sobering commentary on the widening gap between haves and have-nots into this quirky tale of lopsided families finding the courage Continue reading » The Sheltering Rain is a fine little panorama of its place and time -- and changing times -- with an appealing cast of characters from that scene. Definitely not JoJo Moyes best work. This book was really hard to get in to as it just constantly jumped around. It felt like a lot of effort reading it. The story definitely improved in the last quarter, however the ending was rather disappointing it felt like a last minute ending just to finish it off.Komei even introduces his old friend to bartender Senda -- "a character in a lot of my stories", he explains. La narrazione viaggia su due piani temporali diversi, aspetto che mi piace tanto: quello del presente, sdoppiato tra l’Irlanda e Londra, e quello del passato dei due nonni da giovani, dal giorno in cui si sono conosciuti. Sabine, nieta de Joy, hija de Kate es una joven de 16 años que pintan como adolescente ¿se es todavía una adolescente irritable a esa edad?, no lo se, pero que niña tan insoportable, egoísta, intratable, desagradecida y grosera, me cayó realmente mal.