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Jojo Moyes

(b.1969)

Jojo Moyes 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.

The film adaptation of Me Before You starring Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) was released in June 2016 and was a huge box-office success. The screenplay was written by Jojo.

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

Awards: RNA (2011) see all

Genres: Romance, General Fiction, Historical

New and upcoming books

February 2025

We All Live Here

Series

Me Before You
   1. Me Before You (2011)
   2. After You (2014)
   3. Still Me (2018)

Novels

   Sheltering Rain (2002)
   Foreign Fruit (2003)
     aka Windfallen
   The Peacock Emporium (2004)
   The Ship of Brides (2005)
   Silver Bay (2006)
   Night Music (2008)
   The Horse Dancer (2009)
   The Last Letter from Your Lover (2010)
   The Girl You Left Behind (2012)
   One Plus One (2019)
   The Giver of Stars (2019)
   Someone Else's Shoes (2023)
   We All Live Here (2025)

Collections

Paris for One and Other Stories (2016)

Novellas and Short Stories

Honeymoon in Paris (2015)

Series contributed to

Quick Reads 2015
Paris For One (2015)

Books containing stories by Jojo Moyes

Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

Awards

	2011 RNA: Romantic Novel Award : The Last Letter from Your Lover
	2004 RNA: Romantic Novel Award : Foreign Fruit

Award nominations

	2020 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : The Giver of Stars
	2019 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : Still Me
	2016 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee) : After You
	2008 RNA: Romantic Novel Award (nominee) : Silver Bay

Jojo Moyes recommends

There's Nothing Wrong with Her (2024)
Kate Weinberg
"Kate Weinberg writes with prose so exquisite that I kept copying bits to show people. There's Nothing Wrong With Her is so beautifully perceptive and forensically observed; she writes about the complexities of human relationships in a way that stops me in my tracks. One of those books I will read again and again."

You Are Here (2024)
David Nicholls
"Any love story by David Nicholls is a treat, but this one is especially tender, wise and joyful. I inhaled it."

The Burnout (2023)
Sophie Kinsella
"I devoured The Burnout in one greedy gulp. It's funny, sad, relatable, and brilliantly done. Sophie Kinsella is the queen of romantic comedy."

None of this is True (2023)
Lisa Jewell
"Gloriously dark and twistier than a twisty thing."

Between Us (2023)
Mhairi McFarlane
"Everything you want from a rom com and satisfyingly knotty with proper, recognisable characters. She just gets better and better."

Pug, Actually (2021)
Matt Dunn
"Matt Dunn is offically funny."

Animal (2021)
Lisa Taddeo
"Fearless, sexy, brutal, and just forensically observed."

Us Three (2020)
Ruth Jones
"Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do. I felt for every character. Unputdownable."

A Theatre for Dreamers (2020)
Polly Samson
"Sublime and immersive … If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend."

The Silent Treatment (2020)
Abbie Greaves
"A remarkably assured debut which doesn't go where you expect it to go. I very much look forward to seeing what she writes next."

Grown-Ups (2020)
Marian Keyes
"Messy, tangled complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort our lives out at all."

The Poison Garden (2019)
Alex Marwood
"I devoured The Poison Garden . . . Gripping and utterly convincing, it's Alex Marwood at the top of her (already impressive) game."

Queenie (2019)
Candice Carty-Williams
"Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking."

Nine Perfect Strangers (2018)
Liane Moriarty
"One of the few writers I'll drop anything for. Her books are wise, honest, beautifully observed ..."

Love and Ruin (2018)
Paula McLain
"McLain has such a gift for bringing characters to life."

Where The Light Gets In (2018)
Lucy Dillon
"Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind of book that makes you want to live your own life better."

A Year at Hotel Gondola (2018)
Nicky Pellegrino
"A novel about the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry."

Beartown (2017)
(Beartown, book 1)
Fredrik Backman
"I wasn't sure I would love a novel centred on hockey - but as with Friday Night Lights this is actually a story about people - about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men. I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book."

Songs of Love and War (2015)
(Deverill Chronicles, book 1)
Santa Montefiore
"Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore. Everything she writes, she writes from the heart."

The Way You Look Tonight (2014)
Richard Madeley
"Original, unexpected and gripping."

The Vacationers (2014)
Emma Straub
"I loved Emma Straub's The Vacationers; funny, poignant and beautifully observed."

The Disappearance of Emily Marr (2013)
Louise Candlish
"It reminded me of Joanna Trollope at her best."

The Rosie Project (2013)
(Don Tillman, book 1)
Graeme Simsion
"I wanted to race through The Rosie Project but had to make myself slow down from my usual reading pace, because of the number of sly jokes that I almost missed. A lovely, original, and very funny read."

All She Wants (2012)
Jonathan Harvey
"Utterly original."

Their Finest (2009)
Lissa Evans
"Evans is a wonderful writer."

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