Still Me: Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts

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But the Bumble Bee tights still exist and still come out in the moments when she needs to be reminded of who she is. Louisa and Agnes develop a relationship, a friendship even, which the first half of the book covers. Louisa creates a routine in her life in New York. She makes friends. She has new flirtations. She and Sam struggle with long distance in their new relationship. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You,After You, and Still Me.

Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the super-rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New York life within this privileged world. Jojo’s work never fails to bring a smile to my face with her honesty, humour and empathy about what it is to be human —[Still Me is] a must read!” —Emilia Clarke This story made me laugh out loud. Lily (Will’s daughter) is perfection in her horrific teenager-ness. A new character Margot is terrible and wonderful. And oh— the letters. Moyes uses people or conversations that she has encountered at as a starting point for developing characters, she also often uses many aspects of her own life and personality and adjust and develops and molds them until they form fully fledged characters and stories. Moyes has a full life with three children and lots of animals, so has much around her to draw inspiration thing.

Jojo Moyes Early Works

ME BEFORE YOU to Be Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber". Collider. 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 5 November 2015. Sturges, Fiona (5 May 2023). "Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes audiobook review – a smart changing-places tale". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 June 2023. It is a story of daughters, mothers and grandmothers and the type of bond that these women have. As indicated, earlier Jojo Moyes is married to Charles Arthur who is also a journalist and they live in saffron, Walden, Essex with their three children. Still Me was really enjoyable and definitely poignant in places. It's a powerful meditation on being true to yourself, no matter how many people want you to do otherwise, and the struggles doing so may cause. It's also a story about the importance of saying what you think, of expressing how you feel (which these characters were definitely not good at), or else what occurs around you might not be what you wanted. Moyes first won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit [26] and again in 2011 for The Last Letter From Your Lover. [27] She is one of few authors to have received this award twice. [28]

a b http://www.freshfiction.com, info@freshfiction com-. "Jojo Moyes". freshfiction.com . Retrieved 10 August 2022. {{ cite web}}: External link in |last= ( help) The Giver of Stars was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. [36]Well, most of my friends would laugh at the idea that I was massively interested in fashion. My default uniform is shirt, jumper, jeans, boots. I rarely wear anything else. But it feels like such an integral part of Louisa’s character, and over the past few years I have discovered a love of vintage clothes. I have a number of vintage outfits—and suppliers—and I find them so much more enjoyable, both to buy and wear, than just a chain boutique. It’s partly textural. The work that goes into some of these older clothes—beading, cutting, stitching—is just beautiful. Even I can appreciate it! 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. Jojo Moyes is a phenomenal storyteller. I adore her characters, settings and scenes. I may be partial as I know a lot of the places in the book since it takes place in NYC; however, even when Lou is just wandering around with no real plot, it's brilliant writing. The setting is always described in the perfect amount of detail with just enough for my imagination to fill in the blanks.

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.” —BustleSo whilst I could comprehend Agnes’s actions I still think that she should have approached her troubles differently. A WHOLE LOT DIFFERENTLY! I mean who cares about what those women thought about her? If she felt inappropriately dressed for the events she had to attend, why the hell didn’t she recruit a stylist?! Money obviously wasn’t a problem and if you have a personal hair dresser, coach and assistant already I’m sure it’s not that hard to get a proper stylist as well. She would have automatically felt more confident and comfortable and that would have had an effect on the people around her as well. Also sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and hold your head high. Well, at least that’s what I would have done, along with giving them my best impression of the finger. ;-P Just saying. In this book we see our much-loved Louisa Clarke moving to New York City to be the "assistant" to a wealthy young socialite. A socialite who is not much liked by others in her social circles as her husband was once married to their friend. A friend he divorced to marry his much younger massage therapist. Before she is even over her jet lag, Louisa is running in central park, shopping and attending fancy social events. She is thrown into a glamorous life one that is much different from the life she lived in England with her paramedic boyfriend, Sam. Few people can leave me emotionally jumbled quite like Jojo Moyes can. The first book of hers I read, Me Before You, literally had me ugly crying, and I'll admit a healthy sob or two while reading its sequel, After You. Even one of Moyes' standalone books, The Girl You Left Behind, left me puffy-eyed. Treena: ”All this being said, even I know what all that matters in the long run is that these two girls of mine are happy. And if you make her happy, Eddie, like Sam makes our Lou happy, then good on you. I’m very glad to know you.”

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. Two books post game-changer and I have to wonder, would any follow-up to Me Before You be impressive enough to rival the thought-provoking circumstances or raw emotion Louisa and Will's story evoked from the masses? At this point, I think not. The takeaway here—some things should be left to stand on their own. From the sensational #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You, Louisa Clark. Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. She continues to write articles for The Daily Telegraph. [16]The Romantic Novelists’ Association has awarded the yearly novel of the year award to Jojo Moyes twice. Moyes won in 2011 for writing her novel The Last Letter From Your Lover. In 2003 Jojo Moyes won the award again for her novel Foreign Fruit. After You is a continuation of Louisa Clark's life after Will's death. Pursuing a more meaningful existence, as urged by Will, Louisa relocates to London and secures a job at an airport bar. One night, an unexpected conversation startles her on the roof of her building, leading to a severe injury from a fall. She did not think of becoming a novelist however her love for romantic novels, brought a new concept to her mind and she began writing. Jojo Moyes published her first novel Sheltering Rain’ in the year 2002 and since then she has written many more books. Heyman, Marshall (4 February 2023). "She Grabs the Wrong Gym Bag, and Carries It Into a New Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 26 June 2023. Jojo Moyes is technically consider to write romance, but she likes to add in some humor and lighten things up, even add another level of emotion or tension at times. Moyes describes her writing as a fairly organic process; with the different parts kind of naturally coming together to form a cohesive whole. She does note that her most recent work The One Plus One was done with less of this style writing than any of her other works.