Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher.   I really enjoy this authors books and this was no exception, fantastic storyline, great characters.   Loved it.

A London family are forced to move to a derelict house in the country after their father dies. Initially I found this book quite frustrating as the mother, Isabel, has no practical life skills whatsoever to speak of. She can only play the violin and has no real connection with her two children. However this book did force me to question some of my prejudices, why was I so willing to judge Isabel harshly for not being involved in her children's lives and being dreamy and impractical? When I'm sure we could all name men who consider looking after their own children "babysitting" and are heavily focused on their careers without incurring very much judgement at all. I didn't love it, it is very readable, but it lacks some of the depth and characterization of Jojo Moyes' later work.

I really enjoyed the beautiful and lyrical writing of Jojo Moyes in this uplifting story of loss and starting over. An engrossing read. From the first page I couldn't stop reading it!

I love JoJo Moyes, she writes beautifully and I was expecting the same sense of adventure and heartwarming words as her other novels but for some reason this didn’t sit well with me. The writing felt somewhat rushed and the characters underdeveloped. Maybe I am wrong to be comparing it to her other novels (e.g. Me Before You, because that was wonderful). I wonder if I would have a different opinion if I didn’t know that the novel was written by Motes?

This was an engaging read with both the main  female characters you can empathise with. Laura has taken care of an elderly man for years and put up with increasing abuse in the belief that the house he lives in will be her legacy after his death. 
     Isabel is suffering from the  grief of losing her beloved husband and learning of the amount of debt her and her two children find themselves in. Her daughter Kitty has had to take up the reigns of dealing with everything and is mature beyond her 15 years. 
     Finding herself bequeathed a house  in a distant relatives will , Isabel and the children leave behind their old life to take up residence in rural.Norfolk . Kitty is very resentful to leave behind her old school and friends and sell their beloved home to move halfway across the country . Her son Thierry has not spoken since his father's death  and Isabel is hoping a new start will help him. 
       Laura has a husband, Matt  she hardly ever sees. . Her life revolves around her son Anthony  and having coffee mornings with the other women in their village . She was very disappointed when they found they hadn't been bequeathed their neighbours house after all and would have to watch another family moving her dream home. 
      Isabel was previously  a professional violinist with a symphony orchestra. She finds solace playing her violin and the sounds carry over the distance to the neighbouring vicinityof the community. Her moods depend on the style of music she plays . 
     Slowly the family is drawn into village life and welcomed into the community . The house needs a lot of restoration work and Isabel soon finds her funds depleting.  Will she end up having to lose the house that is finally becoming a home? 
       This is an ultimately heartwarming read and I really connected with the characters . It was well written and uplifting to watch the family recover slowly from their bereavement and changed circumstances and pull together into a tight bond. 
     I can't compare this to any past works as this is the first  book i've read but I  found this an enjoyable read and I thoroughly recommend it.

I love JoJo Moyes writing and this book was no different. It took a while for me to get swept along by the story and I did wonder for a while, where the story was going, but as the characters grew on me, I found myself quickly turning the pages to discover what happens to the family and their friends. 
In the end, I found the book to be a thumping good read - it read like a movie with such beautiful descriptions that I felt I could see the house, the landscape and the characters so clearly. And a truly satisfying ending. I loved it.

Night Music by Jojo Moyes. 

A solid read from one of the premiere authors around today. Moyes has a way of creating believable situations and atmospheres along with likable characters. 

4 STARS

This is an early JoJo Moyes novel that features the Delancy family living in London, but the accidental death of Isabel's husband leaves her devastated, grieving and in dire financial straits. The exclusive lifestyle she had become accustomed to is now well beyond her reach, and what is more she is ill prepared to adapt to her new circumstances. She is a violinist whose entire world had consisted of music, she is a mother of two children, Kitty and Thierry, but is a hopeless mother who had left the childcare to others. Out of the blue, she inherits a rundown property in the countryside, the Spanish House, from a distant relative and uproots her family to live there. Kitty has to grow up fast as she tries to pitch in and help, but Thierry has had serious issues ever since the death of his father.

Isabel is going to have to face enormous obstacles where Matt, a builder, and his wife, Laura, had helped to look after their elderly neighbour, not out of the kindness of their hearts, but with an eye on and expectation of inheriting the house themselves, a house that Laura had long coveted. The good looking and faithless Matt comes across as a good guy initially to the vulnerable Isabel as she foolishly entrusts the building works to a man set on sabotage and revenge. This is a story of love, loss, grief and secrets from a JoJo Moyes that is still developing as a writer, but I enjoyed this character driven melodrama of the Delancy family and its experiences of living in a small village community. Many thanks to Hodder and Stoughton.

I really wanted to love this book. I loved Me Before You, and other books written by JoJo Moyes.  I did not like this one, I did not like the characters at all, or the story line.

I love JoJo’s books. They always sum up real life in its rawest form. This book didn’t disappoint-from the heart break of the main character losing her husband to the journey she goes on to rebuild her life, every moment is beautifully crafted in this book. I loved the main character- she was broken, but never gave up. Her spirit was admirable. Very few writers can do what Jojo does- I couldn’t put it down.

I received this book from Netgalley yesterday, has it been rereleased, because from what I gather it was published in 2008 & I thought it would have been archived prior to this?

Once I started this it sucked me straight in & I didn't stop until I'd finished (0445). This was all the things you expect from a Jojo Moyes novel & more, love, lies, secrets & betrayal. Why is it everyone compares EVERY book to Me before you?