Me Before You

Romantic, thought-provoking tear-jerker than you won’t be able to put down * Woman & Home * Jojo Moyes’s poignantly romantic tales have readers streaming their way through boxes of Kleenex … Me Before You is compelling reading…a profound, fundamental, thought-provoking conundrum lies at the heart of the story, a huge moral dilemma, explored with great fictional finesse. Devotees of Jojo Moyes and newcomers alike will settle into this entertaining book with gusto * Sunday Express * At last, a new Moyes novel - and it’s a triumph. Her story of love blossoming in the most unlikely of ways packs such an emotional punch, you’ll need a box of tissues * Elle * When I finished this novel, I didn’t want to review it: I wanted to reread it. Which might seem perverse if you know that for most of the last hundred pages I was dissolved in tears. Jojo Moyes, the writer who produced this emotional typhoon, knows very well that Me Before You … is a ‘real weepy’. Moyes’s story provokes tears that are redemptive, the opposite of gratuitous. Some situations, she forces the reader to recognise, really are worth crying over … An affair to remember * Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review * Jojo Moyes has done it again with this funny, touching tale that is impossible to put down. Make sure you have a box of tissues to hand! * Candis * Read it and weep: Heartbreak collides with humour in Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You * Good Housekeeping USA * An unlikely love story … To be devoured like candy, between tears * O, The Oprah Magazine * Keep the tissues close as Jojo Moyes returns with Me Before You, a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting tale about the relationship between an embittered quadriplegic man and the carer who is trying to give him a reason to live * Good Housekeeping * Another powerful love story. A deftly plotted narrative populated with likeable engaging characters … a bittersweet story about love, learning and letting go. It’s a tremendous read and I loved it * Daily Mail * Beautifully written * The Sun * Funny, surprising and heartbreaking, populated with characters who are affecting and amusing … This is a thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining novel that captures the complexity of love * People * A perceptive and moving tale * The Independent * Me Before You is a page-turner that sucks the reader into caring about the fate of the heroine … By turns funny and moving but never predictable. The plot contains a number of surprises and raises thoughtful questions * USA Today * A compelling portrait of an unlikely couple * The Independent * Poignant and beautifully written, this book will stay with you long after you’ve put it down * Star Magazine * Funny, believable and heartbreaking, this is sure to be the weepy of 2012 * Woman’s Own * Destined to be the novel that friends press upon each other more than any other next year, it is a tremendous example of what commercial fiction can do when in the hands of an expert. Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling; Lou and Will are a couple who readers will take to their hearts as they did One Day’s Emma and Dex * The Independent * Compelling, moving and absorbing. It’s also a real weepie * Daily Express * This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it * Closer * A compelling novel of life and death decisions and unlikely affections. It’s magical and heartbreaking, but doesn’t shy away from difficult emotional realities. Waterproof mascara essential * Marie Claire * A disarmingly moving love story … a lovely novel, both nontraditional and enthralling * Publishers Weekly * Heartbreaking, soul-searching and utterly compelling * Easy Living * Poignant … heartfelt … Me Before You, at it’s heart, is about two people who properly listen to each other; it is something good * The Independent on Sunday * Arm yourself with tissues for this incredibly emotional bestseller * Best Special Series * You might have seen the film, but we promise the book is better - you won’t be able to forget quirky Lou’s joruney with Will as she becomes his caregiver and their relationship blossoms. You will be needing tissues * Living North * This life-affirming tearjerker more than deserves its recognition as one of the most memorable books of the last decade * Woman & Home *

Jojo Moyes was raised in London. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Red and Woman & Home. She’s married to Charles Arthur, technology editor of The Guardian. They live with their three children on a farm in Essex, England.