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Title: Me Before You

Author:  Jojo Moyes

Published:  Published January 5th 2012 by Michael Joseph (UK) (first published December 31st 2011)

ISBN:  9780718157838

Pages: 482

Synopsis:   Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

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Author Bio:  Jojo Moyes (born 1969) is a British novelist.

Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.

Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.

She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.

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An Introduction to Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes

“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life—or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s

life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window—is that it forces you to rethink your

idea of who you are” (p. 58).

Louisa Clark never wanted to leave her job at the Buttered Bun. After six years, she felt secure in the routine of

making tea and chatting with the café’s regulars. But when her boss closes the business, the unskilled twenty-sixyear-old must take a new job as a paid companion to a wealthy ex–Master of the Universe, who is wheelchair

bound after an accident. Prickly and embittered, Will Traynor nonetheless opens Louisa’s eyes to the limitations

she has imposed upon her life—and the infinite possibilities that only love can awaken.

A few short years earlier, Will was a major corporate player who bought and sold companies for obscene

profits. He climbed mountains and dated cover girls. All that changed after a speeding motorcycle crushed his

spine. Paralyzed from the neck down and even unable to feed himself, Will’s life as he knows it is over—and he is

not interested in exploring a new one.

Louisa feels intimidated by Will, his commanding mother, Camilla, and the Traynors’ grand home, but the

position pays a lot more than her waitressing job did and her family doesn’t hesitate to remind Lou that she has

few options otherwise.

At first, Will resents Louisa’s very presence. When he destroys a shelf full of pictures, Louisa tries to repair the

damage. Furious, he lashes out, “It would be nice—just for once—if someone paid attention to what I wanted. Me

smashing those photographs was not an accident” (p. 56). Yet, the blowout is a turning point. Louisa stops trying

to second guess Will’s decisions, but also refuses to bear the brunt of his frustration.

Louisa is accustomed to putting herself last. Her parents never hid the fact that they considered Louisa’s

younger sister, Treena, to be the more intelligent sibling. Patrick—Louisa’s boyfriend of six years—is a selfabsorbed personal trainer concerned only with his performance in the next triathlon. As she and Will grow

closer, he convinces her that she deserves more respect from everyone in her life, including herself. Still, Lou has

her reasons for wanting things to stay the same as they have always been.

When Lou learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth

living. She begins researching technologies that can give him more autonomy and looking for outings that he

might find appealing. Each for the other’s sake, Louisa and Will push beyond their comfort zones and, in turn,

change each other in ways that neither could ever have anticipated.

As inspiring as it is heartbreaking, Me Before You is Jojo Moyes’s international bestselling breakout novel—

and the captivating tale of two people whose improbable romance sets them both free.

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