Me Before You

A Novel

By: Jojo Moyes

Narrated by: Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, Alex Tregear, Andrew Wincott, Owen Lindsay

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose...

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common - a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

Cast of Narrators:

• Susan Lyons
• Anna Bentink
• Steven Crossley
• Alex Tregear
• Andrew Wincott
• Owen Lindsay

©2012 Jojo Moyes (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"A hilarious, heartbreaking, riveting novel.... I will stake my reputation on this book." (Anne Lamott, People Magazine)

"When I finished this novel, I didn’t want to review it: I wanted to reread it...an affair to remember." (New York Times Book Review, Liesl Schillinger)

"An unlikely love story.... To be devoured like candy, between tears." (O, The Oprah Magazine)

Wonderful story

Well written and preformed story that will touch your heart. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series.

Love

In this story, assisted suicide looms in the background. Front and center is love and compassion. I have watched the movie a few times, and found it represents the storyline, action and characters very closely. I did not know that there are two sequels, but plan to listen to or read them.

A big plus, and partly why I gave all stars is that there is no graphic sex. A great storyteller does not need to titillate the reader with sex. Jojo Moyes is a great storyteller.

You will laugh and cry, and think about how you might deal with becoming a quadriplegic at a young age, after living a dynamic life. If you’re like me, you’ll struggle between understanding the escape that assisted suicide offers to those in chronic suffering, maybe wonder how others like Christopher Reeve have lived with it, and the responsibility we owe our loved ones, to avoid causing them undue pain, to continue with them on this journey called life, letting them and others help us even in the indignity of, as an adult, being bathed or wiped after toileting. I do not condone assisted suicide for many reasons though I understand the desire for it.

Recommended, but with caveat about suicide.

Love every minute of it!

Wonderful writer I’ll read another one of her books soon. Loved the book. Love the narrator.

Just WOW!!

I haven’t seen the movie, I typically prefer the book. This book, I found to be, insightful, empowering and heart wrenching. It’s a reminder to dream big, don’t settle and follow your heart. The narrators, for the most part, only added to the experience. If you’re considering this read, do it …it took me a while to get to it, but I’m glad I finally did.

There love

Omgg this book broke and awoken something in me at the same time it was so romantic and so sad my heart aches for Louisa

I actually stopped driving while I was listening

What did you love best about Me Before You?

It felt so real - so very believable. In fact, one portion of the story was in the newspaper headlines today.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed. I ugly cried. I stopped driving in the middle of a road.

Who or What defines Quality of Life?

This is a thought-prevoking, interesting story on a controversial topic. It was also an eye-opener to the stuggles faced by quadraplegics. Well-written, very entertaining, made me laugh out loud and cry. I could not stop listening! Jennifer

Very engaging novel, start to end

This novel grabbed me from the start, and I loved it right to the end. A working class 20-something English woman becomes caretaker for a wealthy quadriplegic young man. This story is filled with interesting and believable characters, and touches your heart throughout. There are small twists and turns which I won't say too much about, for fear of being a spoiler. While this feels like a story that will draw more female listeners and readers, I think men and women will both like this. It is both a feel-good and sad story. I liked Moyes's One Plus One, yet liked this even more. This was my favorite audio-novel in quite a while.

Good listen but predictable

This is my second Jojo Moyes listen and this one is as good as the last. Very entertaining chick book. Easy listening.

Enjoyable story without being trite

The premise of this story seems ripe for a trite sort of love story, but this story is richer and more realistic. None of the main characters is given an easy way out and the connections between people that are formed are believable and inspiring. If you like stories about real people and how enriching change can be, listen to this story.