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The Girl You Left Behind
by Jojo Moyes
Description:
In 1916, French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything – her family, reputation and lifein the hope of seeing her true love one last time. Nearly a century later and Sophie’s portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. Its beauty speaks of their short life together, but when the painting’s dark and passion-torn history is revealed, Liv discovers that the first spark of love she has felt since she lost him is threatened… In The Girl You Left Behind two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for the thing they love mostwhatever the cost.
About The Author
Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.
Moyes 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. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
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.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Two women, separated by almost a century, living in two different countries are united in their love for their missing husbands and the painting called `The Girl You Left Behind’. Sophie Lefevre in First World War France, and Olivia Halston in twenty first century England have very different stories but both suffer loss and privation and their fates are tied up with that of the painting.
As the novel moves towards its amazing conclusion the past and present merge and move to a fitting conclusion. This is a fabulous read. The setting is vividly painted and at times the reader feels themselves at the bar of Le Coq Rouge or the glass penthouse. This story has many twists and turns that keep the readers attention engaged and wanting to read on. The characterisation is so strong that you find you really care about the fate of these two young women. Rated at five and a half if it were possible!