I love it when the author shapes the story around characters, rather than making it seem as though the characters are merely bi-product of a plot outline, so this was perfect for me.

I normally take to one or more of her characters, especially the main players, however, I didn't find this the case in this story. Isabel Delancey’s husband Laurent is killed in a car crash and for the first time in her life she has to provide both emotionally and financially for their two children, the teenage Kitty and her younger brother Thierry.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Me Before You and the new 2023 novel Someone Else's Shoes. Two men who each like her - one is wealthy, sleeps around and doesnt care about his family, the other is the strong silent type who obviously has a past. Isabel lost her husband in a car crash and with no money and two children to provide for, she views 'Spanish.

For a woman who has lived a sheltered life as a classic violinist while her husband took care of the things in their everyday life, Isabel is thrown for a loop and for a while, is barely able to cope. NIGHT MUSIC was a book that really delved into the harshness of life, and I couldn’t get enough of it. As soon as I saw her name appear at my computer scene without reading the blurb or looking at the title, I just pushed the request button so hard and I might have broken my mouse! Mir gefällt das Buch, da ich dieses mal wieder sofort in der Geschichte drin war und einfach nur weiterlesen wollte.Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had— and that a heart can play a new song. The secondary characters in this book (many of them with occasional points of view,) were wonderful to read. He was killed in a car accident, and has left her in debt, floundering to survive in the world of realities which, up to this point, she has mostly ignored.

Losing her husband and having to confront her problems made her grow up immensely and let her prove a better mother to her children as a result. Instead of this happening however to their disgust and bitter disappointment when he passes away the house is bequeathed to his grand-niece Isabel Delancey who is living in London with her two children. The Spanish House is known to locals as an architectural folly, and it is now nearly derelict to boot. Später, so hatte ich den Eindruck, versuchte sich Jojo Moyes zu verändern, sowohl thematisch als auch im Schreibstil. Isabel didn’t really know how to do much of anything other than take care of her own self, so she was a bit dysfunctional when left to her own devices, or being available for her teenage children.Kitty makes friends in the village and becomes a more normal teenager, and Thierry is befriended by the mysterious Byron, who has a dark secret that only Matt seems to know about. Her teenage daughter Kitty takes on more responsibility than she should, and her young son Thierry has retreated into a world of silence since his father died. I found I could easily picture the main characters, and although I found Isabel somewhat frustrating in her naivety at times, I wanted everything to work out for her. It's an old and derelict house, in need of a lot of repairs, but it is in a wonderful location by the lake.

Al principio me sentí un poco perdida, porque no lograba relacionar la sinopsis con lo que estaba leyendo. It was perfect in the way she found solace in her violin, taking to the roof at night to play out all of her emotions. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside. Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.Her 15 years old Kitty misses her friends from her old place and Thierry is still keeping his silence after dealing with tragedy of losing his father. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. On a side note, many thanks to the author for giving me a fit of giggles when Byron Firth emerges all wet and dripping from a lake – wonder where her inspiration for that scene lay? Isabelle was an infuriating character, I couldn't root for her or feel sorry for her even though she was grieving for her dead husband and her life had turned upside down. Violinist Isabel has been recently widowed and been left a whole lot of debt so, being left The Spanish house is the last resort, after their beautiful home in Maida Vale in London.