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Windfallen
Written by Jojo Moyes
Narrated by Michelle Ford
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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The tiny, well-ordered seaside village of Merham holds little to interest the adventurous-except for Arcadia, the breathtaking art deco house perched above the shoreline. Attracted to this magical place, young Lottie Swift surrenders freely to its temptations and ultimately must face the hard consequences of her actions.
Years later, another young woman comes to Merham. A designer hired to make over the now-empty Arcadia, Daisy Parsons seeks a new beginning, as Lottie once did. Fleeing a broken relationship, Daisy finds refuge at Arcadia, and something more-a love she thought she would never know again.
Years later, another young woman comes to Merham. A designer hired to make over the now-empty Arcadia, Daisy Parsons seeks a new beginning, as Lottie once did. Fleeing a broken relationship, Daisy finds refuge at Arcadia, and something more-a love she thought she would never know again.
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Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes is a British novelist and journalist. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages.
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Rating: 3.4954955810810815 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A bit slow to start, but story kind of reels you in
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a story of things half said, almost said and never said. Set in a small seaside town its inhabitants will forever fight change to their own detriment. The reader is introduced to outsiders who will change everything forever.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of my favorite authors
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I love Jojo Moyes' more recent books, so I thought I would go back and read her earlier ones. I read 30 pages of this book, which is the second one she wrote, and stopped. I simply couldn't muster up any interest whatsoever in the characters and their activities. For me, this was a waste of time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the second book of Jojo Moyes I have read and I'm a definite fan now, but I have to tell you to stick to the books. I get a little bored half way through and have to push to continue, then they both picked up the pace and I loved the endings. I have two more in my TBR piles and onto the next!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Lottie Swift, Arcadia has always been magical. The breathtaking art deco house perched above the shoreline of the well-ordered village of Merham seems to stand still throughout the years. It has never changed, not really, but Lottie's fate and fortune have been inextricably linked with those of the beautiful house, and it will forever be fixed in her mind as a symbol of adventure, youth, and loves lost and gained. Even as her life—and the house—falls into disrepair.Years later another young woman comes to Merham. A designer hired to make over the now-empty Arcadia, Daisy Parsons seeks a new beginning, as Lottie once did. Fleeing a broken relationship and now facing being a single mother, Daisy finds refuge in the house, and something more—a love she thought she would never know again and a friendship unlike any she's experienced before.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Having discovered that I loved the writing of Jojo Moyes, I’ve set about to read through her backlist. Windfallen is her second novel, and was originally published in the UK as Foreign Fruit, which, to my thinking, is a much more appropriate title.The novel begins in the 1950’s in the conservative seaside town of Merham a couple of hours from London. The community is appalled when a previously empty 1930’s art deco house known as Arcadia is taken over by a group of bohemians with ambigious domestic relationships. But 18-year-olds Celia Holden and her friend Lottie Swift (who lives with Celia’s family), are bedazzled. They are fit to burst from the constricting binds of Celia’s uptight mother and Merham’s equally uptight fear of change. They begin to visit the newcomers, entranced by the exotic way they live and their lack of inhibitions. Celia’s mother finds out and sends her off to London. Eight weeks later Celia returns with a fiancé, Guy Bancroft. But everything becomes upended, and Lottie is forced to leave town.Fifty years later, we pick up with the story of Daisy Parsons, an interior designer who has been hired to restore Arcadia as a hotel. Daisy, 28, has just been abandoned by the father of her four-month old daughter, but needs to pull herself together and complete this job in order to turn her life around. As she uncovers the secrets of Arcadia, she not only helps bring change to Merham, but discovers her own destiny in the process.Evaluation: Jojo Moyes is an excellent and engrossing storyteller, and of course she had me sobbing by three-quarters of the way through the book. If you like sagas about lost love and found love with a well-written historical background, this will definitely appeal to you. I suppose it is properly considered a “romance,” and in fact it won the 2004 Romance Novelist Association (RNA) Book of the Year Award (under its British title, Foreign Fruit). But I would certainly class Jojo Moyes head and shoulders above many writers designated by that genre.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maeve Binchey fans will enjoy Moyes' story set in a small English village on the sea. Beginning in the 1950's the story revolves around Lottie, who came to live with the village doctor's family as a London evacuee. When she falls in love with a man she can't have she takes flight to France where she lives with the bohemian benefactor. Her benefactor leaves Lottie the big house back in the English village. Now in the 21st century, Lottie, the acerbic matron sells the house to a London developer, and a young single mom, Daisy, resides there while doing the renovations. As Daisy uncovers the past, both she and Lottie are changed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book I read had a 2003 copyright so I assume this is one of Moyes earlier works that has had subsequent printings. Although the beginning was a little confusing as was the jump in time later in the book, as usual, I love the way Moyes writes and how she provides a complete picture, no pun intended, with her writing---full of detail both physical and emotional. I have another one of her older books in my hands for "next."
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good,gentle read.