Audiobook: 12 hours listening
Narrated By: Daisy Ridley
Genre: Audio Book,Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: February 2023 - Penguin Audio
First Sentences: Sam stares up at the slowly lightening ceiling and practises her breathing, like the doctor advised her, as she tries to stop her 5.am thoughts congealing into one enormous dark cloud above her head.
Review Quote: 'Hard-hitting and laugh-aloud . . . Two women's lives intertwine and change profoundly in this story full of richly imagined characters' THE TIMES
My Opinion:
Jo Jo Moyes is an author whose writing I have been reading since 2002, but this is a first for me as I listened on Audible.
The story of Nisha and Sam and the mess they find themselves in when Nisha's husband starts divorce proceedings against her, plus quite by chance she and Sam get caught up in each others problems thanks to a mix up at the gym, is a warm hearted one. Though sometimes tending on the farcical!
An entertaining listen that I can recommend to anyone looking to be taken away from reality for awhile. either as a listen or of course a read.
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars
Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?
Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope—she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.
That’s because Sam Kemp—in the bleakest point of her life—has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag—she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.
Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humour, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.
Author Profile:
Courtesy of Goodreads Profile
Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelistMoyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years.
Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.
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