The Girl You Left Behind: The No 1 bestselling love story from Jojo Moyes

Author(s): Jojo Moyes

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From the author of Me Before You and Still Me, a sweeping bestseller of love and loss, deftly weaving two journeys from World War I France to present day London.


 


Paris, World War I. Sophie Lef vre must keep her family safe while her adored husband, douard, fights at the front. When their town falls to the Germans, Sophie is forced to serve them every evening at her hotel. From the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait--painted by her artist husband--a dangerous obsession is born.


 


Almost a century later in London, Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before his sudden death. After a chance encounter reveals the portrait's true worth, a battle begins over its troubled history and Liv's world is turned upside all over again.


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Even as Moyes tackles the inflammatory issues around art stolen during wartime, she never loses sight of the driving engine of her narrative ... this pleasurably assured writer skilfully balances the quotidian and the comic with the broad and universal, leaving us with the tantalising possibility of a potential caper to come Independent on Sunday Jojo Moyes paints a genuinely moving, beautiful picture of how love and belief will ultimately win the war, even if they can't win the battle. The Girl You Left Behind is a true work of art Fabulous This story is wonderfully well-written and completely engrossing, with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative. It will make you think long after you finish the final page Daily Mail Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy and this won't disappoint. A masterclass in story-telling that fans of Me Before You will adore Elle Another heart-stoppingly brilliant novel from Jojo Moyes Marie Claire

Jojo 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 Me Before You, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Ship of Brides and Foreign Fruit. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.

General Fields

  • : 9780718157845
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.373
  • : October 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jojo Moyes
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823/.92
  • : 560