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

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Evaluation: I enjoy all of Moyes books. Her writing is quite good and her talent for realistic dialogue is outstanding. When I finished this novel, I didn’t want to review it; I wanted to reread it. . . . An affair to remember.” —The New York Times Book Review Most of the book is about Suzanna, and her long-suffering husband, Neil. It's worth reading to the end because there it gets better. Read it, you might like it. Opinions are all my own.

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Another character I felt sorry for was Vivi, she was definitely under appreciated by her family. 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. 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. We are given stories about the people that relate to Suzanna past and present to flesh out her otherwise insipid life.Review of “Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc” by Hugh Aldersey-Williams There are some key themes that Jojo Moyes works through - the issue of lies and well-meant deception, versus the right to know is an important one. The roles that money and status play in the complex web of marriage is another. I absolutely could not stand the main character. I found her annoying and depressing. Through out the entire book all you want to do is meet this main character just so you can tell her to grow up and stop complaining. Every time I would finish a chapter I felt like my life was just as crappy's as the main character. While Jojo Moyes does a great job in getting us inside a slightly depressed, deeply unhappy character's mind I still couldn't find myself caring at all about this main character. I didn't care if she ever found happiness or resolved any of her problems...all I wanted was to hurry up and finish the book. Moyes wisely knows that life-changing events don’t always change our lives for the better. . . . After You may not be the sequel you expect, but it is the sequel you needed.” —Entertainment Weekly

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La historia se divide en el tiempo, visitamos el pasado para obtener algo de la historia de fondo y luego llegar al presente con Suzanna y la acumulación de los personajes y la historia que eventualmente todos se enlazan entre sí. Suzanna es el personaje principal, pero esto no se hace evidente hasta más adelante en la historia. 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.

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Family and class are both significant themes in this book—and in some of your other books as well—and we see Suzanna, Douglas, and others chaffing at their tethers. What is it about issues of class that makes it important to you? Y es que a medida que cada capítulo comienza el lector es inicialmente envuelto en el misterio acerca de quién es el sujeto y que eran los eventos que estaban teniendo lugar. Sin embargo, como el libro evoluciona, el misterio se resuelve y el rompecabezas de las vidas de los personajes toma forma. El libro tomó algunas vueltas que no esperaba, pero en última instancia es una historia de cómo la familia forma nuestra creencia en sí mismo y las decisiones simples que toman las personas y la complejidad de por qué lo hacen. Because that was it, loving someone, wasn't it? The knowledge that, if nothing else, you wanted them to be happy.”