Like stars in the dark night

In her latest novel, Jojo Moyes delivers a narrative historical drama based on real events during the American Depression.

Alice Wright had hoped to escape the cramped life in England by marrying handsome American Bennett Van Cleve. But neither her marriage nor her life in a remote corner of Kentucky is turning out the way she imagined. So she enthusiastically welcomes the opportunity to volunteer for the so-called Horse Library Project, which aims to spread literature and education in remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains. Alice, Margery and three other courageous women will travel on horseback through a dangerous wild landscape, Fighting local prejudice against women, immigrants and people of colour, but also a wonderful female friendship, coherence and love.