You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height. - Jojo Moyes #afteryou
Biography
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and grew up in London. After a varied career including stints as a minicab controller, typer of braille statements for blind people for NatWest, and brochure writer for Club 18-30, she did a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. In 1992, she won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University.
Jojo worked as a journalist for ten years, including a year at South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and nine at The Independent where she worked variously as News Reporter, Assistant News Editor and Arts and Media Correspondent.
Jojo has been a full time novelist since 2002, when her first book, Sheltering Rain was published. Since then she has written a further eleven novels, all of which have been widely critically acclaimed.
Jojo has won the Romantic Novelist’s Award twice, and Me Before You has been nominated for Book of the Year at the UK Galaxy Book Awards. Me Before You has since gone on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide.
For more information about all of Jojo’s novels, please visit the books page here.
Jojo lives (and writes!) on a farm in Essex, England with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.
Last tweets
Last tweets
RT @BBCStudiosPress: Jojo Moyes to teach Writing Love Stories course with @BBCStudios partner @BBCMaestro.
Hello! So I've been working on this with the BBC. It will be available later this year. Hope it might be of some us… https://t.co/YF3QC9ZjcZ
My books
Press Review
Jojo Moyes: ‘I’d like to be the Puccini of fiction’
The Guardian - 09/21/2015
The Me Before You author on success, Syrian refugees and the joy in making people feel something Know more
A Conversation with Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes came to the Burlingame Library on July 16, 2014 for an author talk and book signing. . Here, she discusses her books, her career, and some of the inspirations behind her writing.
Interview by BookBrowse
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Tell us a little about where your ideas for your characters and their stories come from.
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They come from all over the place. It's often a snippet of conversation or a news story that just lodges in my head and won't go away. Sometimes I get an idea for a character too, and then unconsciously start knitting them together. Me Before You is the most "high concept" book I've ever written—in that I could describe it in two sentences. But most of them are a lot more organic and just contain lots of ideas and things that I've pulled together. With this book I think the issue of quality of life was probably to the front of my mind as I had two relatives who were facing life in care homes, and I know that in one case she would probably have chosen any alternative to that existence.