The Peacock Emporium: A charming and enchanting love story from the bestselling author of Me Before You

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The Peacock Emporium: A charming and enchanting love story from the bestselling author of Me Before You

The Peacock Emporium: A charming and enchanting love story from the bestselling author of Me Before You

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There were a lot of characters and I was sometimes confused as to who was the actual focus of the book. The first few chapters highlight Athene’s wild beginnings, and then you soon turn to Suzanna’s much more conventional story. There are too many characters, jumping across to many timelines and points of view, and no one is likable enough to root for. You have written both contemporary and historical novels, and some, like this one, have dual timeframes within them. Debo reconocer que al principio no me gustó Suzanna, pero una vez que entiendes más sobre su vida familiar y ver cómo su carácter evolucionas, tiendes a tomarle cariño.

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Her husband was not a bad guy (just the wrong guy), so he deserved much better from her than he got. In the Swinging Sixties, the glamorous spoilt socialite Athene appears to have it all, but she has a big fall from grace and disappears, leaving an infant daughter Suzanna.If Neil was some drunk or cheater I would have accepted her and Alejandros relationship but he wasn't some awful husband. Almost the entire book is set in 2001 with a few flashbacks to the 1960s, so that cover is reeeeally misleading. In particular, much of my work uses Cath Kidston and Laura Ashley fabrics and also fabrics from my ever-increasing stash of vintage finds including tweeds and liberty floral prints. You will find products ranging from tiny button brooches to larger pieces such as bags and cushions.

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I can see how some readers might find this one a little slower that some of her other books, and it did take me a little longer than usual to get into it, but once I got going I really fell deeply into the story. This is more of a contemporary setting than I had expected, given the front cover of ball gowns and the start of the book when Vivi is young and going to her first unchaperoned ball. Lily marries Ryle hoping the good will outweigh the bad, and the mother-daughter dynamics evolve beautifully as Lily reflects on her childhood with fresh eyes. Generally, I can relate to characters who are dissatisfied with their lives (or marriages or whatnot), but I really could not feel much for Suzanna's complaints, nor forgive her for the way she lied to and led on her husband, making a promise about something so vital as children only to then cheat on him and dump him a year later, so that he is still childless and she ends up having a baby with the new guy. JoJo Moyes knows how to pen a book filled with emotion and characters the reader grows to care deeply about.

And I don’t know what attracts me to dual timeframes—really it just depends on the story that won’t leave my head and how I think it can best be told. Everything she did for her husband, her mother in-law, she felt like more of the maid, you could tell she loved her husband more than he loved her and even though Suzanna isn't tecniqully her biological daughter she raised and loved her as her own anyway, I felt Suzanna to be a complete bitch towards her.

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Me aloque un poco cuando leí facetas de misma en Suzzana y en otros personajes interesantes que conforman esta historia tan sensatamente contada. I picked this up because it’s a Jo Jo Moyes book and when have I ever been disappointed with one of her books?is that she] peers deftly into class issues, social mores, and complicated relationships that raise as many questions as they answer. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along. So there was a lot of eye-rolling and gritting of teeth but somehow I persevered with the story and made it to the end (which I did not like btw! Although this is Suzanna’s story, frequent point-of-view shifts are distracting and make it more difficult to focus on her journey. I achieved a City and Guilds Level 3 in Stitched Textiles during this time and mainly made gifts for friends and family.

The Peacock Emporium: A charming and enchanting love story

I was disappointed with this story as so far I have loved every book I have read of Jojo's, but I just felt that this fell below the mark; in my opinion the story line could have been more exciting and the characters more loveable. Mientras disfrutaba de esta historia, me pareció que al principio iba a paso lento y no fue hasta que conseguí llegar hasta después de la pagina 100 que realmente la historia me mantuvo adicta a su lectura. We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it’s not always happy, there is an ever after. I shed some tears in the reading, because Moyes can tug at the heartstrings like few other authors can do. Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.I now spend my days stitching whilst listening to the radio, with occasional breaks for tea, biscuits and a play with the cat!



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