Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything . . . I think Lou is very identifiable for a whole raft of people. In Me Before You, it was about being aware that life had somehow slipped away from you. That you’ve reached a certain age and have found yourself leading a very small life, and not being entirely sure how you got there or whether you even wanted to be somewhere else. But in After You, a lot of readers seemed to identify with her grieving process—the difficulty of everybody else expecting you to move on and be cheerful and outgoing when you really don’t feel like that at all. Most important, Lou is someone who really tries to do the right thing—but often does the wrong thing—which I think makes her like an awful lot of us . . . I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.” I’m sorry,’ he said finally. ‘About the other night. I never wanted to … Well, it was badly judged.’ I laughed and teared up at this book. Moyes does a great job of a putting the character in a terrible situation where you think “Oh no, how is she going to get out of this?” I just didn’t laugh quite as hard or cry as much as I did in Me Before You. Still, this novel is worth your time.

GradeSaver. "Jojo Moyes Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & Essays | GradeSaver". www.gradesaver.com . Retrieved 10 August 2022. Class divide is a major theme in your books. Lou often finds herself in circles far different from her working-class upbringing, with employment to the Traynors in Me Before You and the Gopniks in Still Me . Why is this dichotomy important to you and in your writing?

A hilarious, heartbreaking, riveting novel . . . I will stake my reputation on this book.” —Anne Lamott, People I didn’t devour this book like I did Me Before You or its sequel After You. It took me 4 sittings over a few months to finish it. But it wasn’t because the story wasn’t good. It wasn’t because Louisa isn’t still as adorable and flawed as she always has been. It’s a story about life after. About moving on. About next steps. About being in your 30s. About finding yourself. And while the setting is interesting, new characters have personalities that make you want to know more and Louisa is still Louisa, it didn’t have the obsessabilty of Me Before You. But I think it is a stronger book than After You. Lou keeps trying her best to do her tasks in the best possible way, and certainly she will put to test when duty and righteousness, will become one single mess, not making easy to know how to act at certain times. Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, [1] #1 New York Times best selling author [2] and screenwriter. [3] [4] She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages [5] and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. [6] Life and early career [ edit ]

We follow Lou as she settles into her new job as Personal Assistant to Agnes Gopnik, new wife to the awfully rich Leonard Gopnik - much to his ex-wife's dismay.I can’t believe we didn’t get any closure to this story!!! Yes, Mr. Gopnik found out about Agnes daughter and he spoke with Lou, but damn that’s not enough! For the way they treated her he should have begged on his knees for her forgiveness! And Lou?! Lou must be a saint because if they would have treated me like that I would have given him a piece of my mind!!! It’s good that she managed to make the deal for the library but seriously! How they treated her was horrible and there are so many things that were left open. For instance Agnes’s affair with the artist! What happened with that?! Did Mr. Gopnik ever find out about it?! And why the hell didn’t Agnes try to make amends?! All the while she told Lou that she’s her best friend and then she betrayed her in the worst way possible and didn’t even apologize for it?!! I mean Lou covered for her; she was jobless, disgraced and homeless because of the secret she kept for HER!!! And she didn’t even apologize when it all came out?! WTF?! That’s so not okay! What a spineless and unprincipled person!!! It wouldn’t have killed her to say sorry! If I would have been Lou I would have been so damn angry! GRRRR! Lou is a saint. I have no other explanation... The genius of Moyes . . . [is that she] peers deftly into class issues, social mores, and complicated relationships that raise as many questions as they answer. And yet there is always resolution. It’s not always easy, it’s not always perfect, it’s sometimes messy and not completely satisfying. But sometimes it is.” —Bobbi Dumas, NPR.org There aren't a lot of surprises in this book—there were many times when something happened and I thought to myself, "Ah, so this will happen at some point," and I wasn't ever wrong. But that didn't bother me as much as it might with other books, because these characters are so engaging, and Moyes' storytelling just draws you in and feels comfortable and familiar. You could read this book without reading the first two, but you have no idea what you're missing, particularly with Me Before You. NYC is far from Lou’s home in Stotfold, England—what was your research process for finding the places and experiences that Lou enjoys in the Big Apple?

While the series may have started off as a romance, Jojo Moyes has turned Louisa Clark’s story into one about learning to be, and to love, yourself.” —Bustle From the New YorkTimes bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts inMe Before You,After You, andStill Me. Hoover is one of the freshest voices in new-adult fiction, and her latest resonates with true emotion, unforgettable characters and just the right amount of sexual tension. To begin with Lou and Agnes get on like an absolute house on fire. Lou is invited to all the swanky New York events and gets to discover an entirely different lifestyle.There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps. I learnt differently from a man who refused to accept the version of himself he'd been left with, and an old lady who saw, conversely, that she could transform herself, right up to a point when many people would have said there was nothing left to be done. My favourite character in this story was Mrs. DeWitt, a woman who is haughty and demanding, a bit imperious in her treatment of Louisa, at first. Eventually, Louisa manages to find her more agreeable side and a friendship, of sorts, if born.

It was enjoyable to read and I kind of devoured it in a few days, yet at the same time it wasn’t really what I expected/wanted?!Also, Lou will have to be strong about her own personality and the little things that made her like what truly is and don’t betray herself. Only Louisa Clark can be Louisa Clark and the literary world would be a sad place without her. In the same way, only you can be you in our world, so don’t make changes in your very foundation of what makes you, you. This seemed to be the overall motto of the third and last book in this series and I still don’t know if I liked it or not. My feelings for “Still Me” are rather mixed, yet I still found myself enjoying it somehow. Which is probably a great testimony of Jojo Moyes easy writing style and the way she manages to capture her audience. Still, for me it’s also proof of the fact that a book can’t only live from its interesting characters and the authors writing skills. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. Moyes' favourite book in childhood was National Velvet by Enid Bagnold. She cites Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson as a book that made her want to be a better writer, [15] and she is inspired by authors such as Nora Ephron, [44] Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Tropper, and Jane Austen. [5] Personal life [ edit ]