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  • Published: 15 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781580897495
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

Someone Else’s Shoes





Tackling divorce and suicide with a warmth and sensitive humor that refuses to be weighed down, Someone Else's Shoes chronicles a road trip that unites three young people in search of family and acceptance. Fans of Sharon Draper, Jo Knowles and Counting by Sevens will be moved by this tale of what brings us together when things fall apart.

Tackling divorce and suicide with a warmth and sensitive humor that refuses to be weighed down, Someone Else's Shoes chronicles a road trip that unites three young people in search of family and acceptance. Fans of Sharon Draper, Jo Knowles and Counting by Sevens will be moved by this tale of what brings us together when things fall apart.

Twelve-year-old Izzy, a budding stand-up comic, is already miserable about her father's new marriage and the new baby on the way. Then ten-year-old cousin Oliver and his father, Uncle Henderson, move in with Izzy and her mom because Oliver's mother committed suicide only a few months ago. And to make matters worse, Ben, the rebellious 16-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, winds up staying with them, too.

But when Uncle Henderson--who has been struggling with depression after his wife's suicide--disappears, Ben, Izzy, and Oliver set aside their differences and hatch a plan to find him. As the threesome travels in search of Henderson, they find a surrogate family in each other.

  • Published: 15 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781580897495
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Someone Else’s Shoes

Praise for Jojo Moyes

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Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love

Sunday Express

Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best

Marie Claire

This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it

Closer

Moyes is on dazzling form in this big-hearted story

Daily Mirror

Blisteringly good

Sun

Entertaining, immersive and moving

Sunday Times

Dazzling

Sunday Express

A genuinely entertaining book, a really cracking story

Stylist

A compelling, full-of-heart novel about the power of female friendship

Kirkus

Do shoes make the woman... or does the woman make the shoes? Jojo Moyes' new novel is a delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women who seem polar opposites - until circumstance forces them to experience each other's lives. Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does - recognizably real and complex and funny and flawed - which is what makes her novels an auto-buy for me

Jodi Picoult, #1 NYT bestselling author

Someone Else's Shoes is a fantastic novel about the power of female friendships that hugely resonates with me; I'm such a big fan of Jojo's work and of her brilliant, joyful writing. It was an honour to be asked to narrate the story and I hope listeners enjoy the audiobook as much as I enjoyed recording it

Daisy Ridley

Freaky Friday is all grown up in this heartfelt and heartwarming tale of two women in very different circumstances.... From the storyteller behind Me Before You comes a story of reinvention that just might inspire you to make a change yourself-just buy your own shoes

Good Housekeeping

Charming ... Moyes is never short on her trademark clever observations ...[her] fans will have a ball

Publishers Weekly

Showcases Moyes' ability to portray emotion and female friendship with themes of love, betrayal, family, and hope. It is action packed and will have readers rooting for Nisha and Sam

Booklist, Starred Review

A stirring tale of sisterhood, survival and being seen

Red

A warm, witty and uplifting novel and it's a joy to spend time with Jojo Moyes' flawed, likeable characters. Another winner from a fabulous author

Sunday Express

One of our absolute fave authors . . . This brilliant story is a sure-fire hit

Sun

Something to get excited about . . . [The] most compelling and readable of novels, which will make you wonder what it's really like to walk in someone else's shoes

Glamour UK

[A] captivating new blockbuster. Superb. Once you step into the lives of Sam and Nisha, you'll be racing through the pages, breathless to find out what happens next. It's a sassy strut of a novel, full of twists and high-adrenaline moments, but ultimately it's got heart too. The characters are relatable, memorable and engaging, and you'll be rooting for your favourites to end up walking tall

Daily Express

A book we all need in our lives right now. A fabulous and funny romp

Woman & Home Book Club

A paean to women's solidarity wrapped up in a very funny revenge-fuelled caper

The Times

Riotously fun and an ode to strong female friendships

Prima

It's a hit

Sunday Times

Empathy and an extravagant plot collide in Moyes's big hug of a novel. Its real heart is the burgeoning friendship between two brilliantly realised but very different fortysomething women

Mail on Sunday

Very few authors have the power to make you laugh on one page and cry on the next. Moyes is one of them

New York Times

Somehow heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time

Yours

The antidote to February that we all need. A blast of a book . . . There's something rather giddily joyful about this tale of women pulling together, and Moyes writes about their high jinks, tribulations and amorous entanglements with warmth and a wonderfully wicked sense of humour

THE TIMES 'BOOK OF THE MONTH'

Explores themes of female friendship, motherhood, ageing, love and disillusionment. Moyes brings her main characters - a unlikely group of women thrown together - to life, each as flawed as they are brilliant, and stronger together

Grazia

Full of fun, unlikely friendships . . . and female empowerment, it's a welcome escape. A funny romp

Woman

Hard-hitting and laugh-aloud . . . Two women's lives intertwine and change profoundly in this story full of richly imagined characters

The Times

Someone Elses Shoes is SO MUCH FUN. Beautiful about female friendship and brilliant on being a woman of a certain age who won't take any more sh*te!

MARIAN KEYES

A heartfelt story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances

Platinum

A love letter to the strength of female friendship and how women can really be there for each other

Good Housekeeping

Her advice is invaluable

i

This blast of a book throws two wildly different women together for a giddily joyful caper that reminds anyone who may have forgotten — don’t mess with a woman over 40

Sunday Times, Books of the Year
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