Rating: *****
Tags: Contemporary Women, General, Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
For fans of Jojo Moyes' Me Before You
and The Girl You Left Behind - here is an irresistible
ebook-only prequel novella, Honeymoon in Paris. At the heart of
Jojo Moyes' heartbreaking new novel, The Girl You Left Behind,
are two haunting love stories - that of Sophie and Edouard
Lefevre in France during the First World War, and, nearly a
century later, Liv Halston and her husband David.Honeymoon in
Paris takes place several years before the events to come in
The Girl You Left Behind when both couples have just married.
Sophie, a provincial girl, is swept up in the glamour of Belle
Époque Paris but discovers that loving a feted artist like
Edouard brings undreamt of complications. Following in Sophie's
footsteps a hundred years later, Liv, after a whirlwind
romance, finds her Parisian honeymoon is not quite the romantic
getaway she had been hoping for...This enthralling
self-contained story will have you falling in love with Liv and
Sophie, and with Paris then and now, and it is the perfect
appetizer for the The Girl You Left Behind, a spellbinding
story of love, devotion and passion in the hardest of
times.Praise for Jojo Moyes:'Destined to be the novel that
friends press upon each other more than any other . . . Moyes
does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are
charismatic, credible and utterly compelling' Independent on
Sunday'This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob
like a baby' CloserJojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist.
She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to
write full time. Her previous novels have all been critically
acclaimed and include the Richard and Judy bestseller Me Before
You, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Ship of Brides and
Foreign Fruit.