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

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A British woman struggles to deal with her eminent family’s legacy and her own unhappiness as she opens an eclectic shop in her hometown.

The Peacock Emporium - JoJo Moyes

Review of “Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc” by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 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. I hated how her husband Neil was treated, he desperately just wanted kids and Suzanna's attitude to all that was just a complete inconvenience to her. I felt like Neil was wasting his time with her and should just divorce her, she definitely didn't deserve him. I mean she's nearing 35 he's nearly 40, she's not getting any younger and there been together for 10 or so years, If she didn't want kids then she should have let her husband go so he could have a future with someone else.An abundance of those refractions involve motherhood and childbirth. Neil, more than anything, wants a family. Suzanna deflects and delays. That’s one reason why she buries herself in the emporium, because a newborn career is a way of postponing Neil’s urgency. Parenting is important for many of the other characters, too. Suzanna’s father and stepmother constantly question their relationships with their eccentric daughter; Jessie has a young daughter she adores; several other characters struggle with parenting, too. Toward the end of the novel, those narrative echoes rapidly increase, as do the refractions and reflections. The biggest problem I have with this book is the characters; Suzanna herself, and her Mother before her are supremely spoilt and egocentric women and I disliked both immensely.

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If I had to describe to someone what this book is about, I don't know what I would say, I'm still not even sure what it was about. A women's journey of being a bitchy unhappy depressed women to finding happiness? Me Before You is one of my all-time favorites. I hesitated reading anything else by her, worrying it wouldn't compare to MBY or would somehow taint that good memory. Without giving anything away, the ending is truly a remarkable and unexpected twist. Did you know in advance that this is how you would end it, or did the conclusion come about as you worked, slowly revealing itself to you? Suzzana, una chica defectuosa e infeliz, es frecuentada y moldeada por su pasado a pesar de que ella sabe poco sobre ello. Su vida se ha puesto al revés y en la búsqueda de una manera de vivir una vida auténtica y feliz, abre su tienda obstinadamente siguiendo su corazón. La tienda se convierte en el catalizador para una nueva vida y una nueva confianza para Suzzana, aprender quién es y encontrar el amor, la amistad y disfrutar de la compañía de otros.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? I would have liked to know what ever happened to Neil though. would have made up for the crap he had to deal with being with Suzanna. How did you come to understand Suzanna and Neil’s marriage? Did you understand and believe in the relationship that develops between her and Arturro, and did you anticipate what happened between them?