After a decade as a successful journalist, she turned to writing fiction with her first book Sheltering Rain. One of Britain’s most popular novelists, Jojo Moyes worked variously as a minicab controller and brochure writer for Club 18-30 before winning a bursary to attend a course in journalism. If Lou initially hopes her fall has left her paralysed, Moyes swiftly rejects her heroine’s desire for comfort in suffering as Will did, instead giving Lou a new love interest in the form of paramedic Sam and the possibility of a fresh start in New York. Her bubbly, life-loving attitude has vanished, replaced with an existence filled by a dead-end job at a bad Irish pub at City Airport, a grief therapy group, and drinking wine on the roof of her building, from where she tumbles to meet her new fate.

Yet here is Lou, 18 months on from the death of Will, the man she was caring for and fell in love with in the first book, living in a flat she’s bought with the money he bequeathed her and doing absolutely nothing In the writing of the screenplay for the film based on the first book, Moyes said to Vanity Fair, “I’m not really interested in girls who buy things I’m interested in girls who do things.” Pre-order your copy of After You on Amazon now: years after her novel Me Before You left its five-million-plus readers inconsolably weeping over its closing pages, Jojo Moyes released this sequel in response to requests on social media for insights into what happened to Lou Clarke. I hope readers feel the same way at meeting them again.”Īfter You will be published in the UK on the 24th of September 2015.

As ever, they have made me laugh, and cry. It has been such a pleasure revisiting Lou and her family, and the Traynors, and confronting them with a whole new set of issues.

But working on the movie script, and reading the sheer volume of tweets and emails every day asking what Lou did with her life, meant that the characters never left me. Jojo Moyes said “I hadn’t planned to write a sequel to Me Before You. British director Thea Sharrock is attached to the project with an all-star cast featuring The Hunger Games’ Sam Clafin as Will and Game Of Thrones Emilia Clarke as Lou. After You is the sequel to Me Before You, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide and is currently being adapted for the big screen, with a major feature film due for release in 2016. We are delighted to announce that Jojo has a brand new book coming out this Autumn. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: After You, the sequel to Me Before You, coming this Autumn 26 February, 2015

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