River of Stars by Georgina Moore is exquisite. Just like her debut novel. The Garnett Girls, it is immersive and consuming. A story of artists, dreamers, lovers and heartbreakers, all within the close knit community of Walnut Tree Island.
Georgina bases her novels in real life settings that inspire her storyline and Walnut Tree Island is both beautiful and atmospheric through the novel as much as it is stifling and claustrophobic. The beauty of Georgina’s writing is that she can make you feel both those things through her characters, descriptions and the secrets that unravel.
If you’re looking for comparable Authors, then Georgina is up there with Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising) and Erin Hildebrand (ANYTHING set on Nantucket) with her characterisation and writing style. At the same time she has a flare for something that is all her own too. Her writing defies genre restrictions and goes beyond to offer something that is the perfect blend of romance, literary and contemporary fiction rolled into one.
A unique storyline and family representation that is not often seen in fiction, River of Stars follows Jo Star and and a colourful accompaniment of other characters, including her Grandmother who raised her, as they juggle a threat to their tight-knit community and home. With boating and canal-life references that will thrill those who don’t know that life and strike a familiar cord with those who do, River of Stars is a well-researched and extremely well-plotted novel that you won’t be able to help consuming in one sitting.
About the Book
A stunning new novel exploring the lives and secrets of a group of residents of an island in the Thames
Walnut Tree Island is home to artists, dreamers, lovers and heartbreakers. Life is different slow, languorous and always communal, with every evening offering a new opportunity to gather at a neighbour’s houseboat over a glass of wine.
But when a former resident reappears after nearly two decades away, the islanders are thrown into a frenzy as they wonder what plans their new landlord has in store for them.
And for Jo, an artist who long ago lost her muse, his return reopens the wounds of a love she thought was gone forever…
About The Author
Georgina Moore grew up in London and lives on a houseboat on the River Thames with her partner, two children and Bomber, the Border Terrier. The Garnett Girls is her first novel and is set on the Isle of Wight, where Georgina and her family have a holiday houseboat called Sturdy.
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