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I’ve made it to @Damian_Barr’s always brilliant (always packed out) Literary Salon. Tonight @jojomoyes is talking about her new book, The Giver of Stars... 
She says she knew she had to write this book when she found out that Eleanor Roosevelt, after the Great Depression, had brought together a group of women to travel by horseback across the states taking books and literacy to the wider population...
... this was because her husband, the president (of course), feared that because of low literacy rates the masses were falling prey to those who were peddling the equivalent of ‘fake news’ - so JoJo felt a strong resonance with our current times...
