![]() ![]() But life with Bennett proves even duller he shows little interest in his wife, either in or outside the marital bed. Alice fled a dull life in Britain into handsome Bennett’s arms. First to volunteer is Alice Van Cleve, the newlywed British wife of Bennett Van Cleve, whose father owns the local mining company. ![]() She reaches out for more women willing to saddle up horses to serve people whose circumstances won’t allow them to make it to town for books. Margery O’Hare is the fearless leader of the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. ![]() Rather than the story of a single romance, as in her best-selling 2012 hit “Me Before You,” “Giver” is a love story of an unlikely group of women who defy society’s norms to deliver library books to people in the mountains of Kentucky during the Great Depression, a real-life program launched by President Franklin D. ![]() The thwack of a book striking a man’s head, the crack of a gunshot and an escape on horseback signal the stellar start to Jojo Moyes’ new book, “The Giver of Stars” (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 400 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars). ![]()
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