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Me Before You

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

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Wonderful

This book is such a touching and love story., such a tragic story. I was very emotional A must read

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Fabulous story, terrible ending. SPOILER!

Excellent story. Excellent narrator. But I think the author missed a really big opportunity here. With such a great storyline focused on a quadriplegic, there was an opportunity to explore an ending where girl and boy meet and fall in love and make it work. As opposed to, say, killing off the main character. Unlike my fellow reviewers, no tears here. but I did enjoy the story up until the end.

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Such a Good Writer!

A good read about a tough life situation
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Reader Beware

If you're looking for a typical happy ending keep looking. This novel is beautifully written and preformed but not your typical boy meets girl romance. It's thought provoking and emotional at times. Very close to the movie in many ways.

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Riveting read

This book is beautifully written; capturing real life emotions and experiences throughout. I found it to be thought provoking on how quickly one’s life can dramatically change by an accident or illness or loss of people we love. It left me being reminded to live every day fully and boldly.

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One of the best

I felt a deep connection with each of the characters, empathy for each perspective. I believe that Jo Jo is a literary genius who has researched, and likely experienced this caregiver/receiver situation to the nth. I love the way she respected the varied views and shared the insights of those who live this life and want others to benefit from their mutual support. I really felt as if she told the story from the inside out.

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Excellent. Absolutely loved it.

Very well written, well read, captivating. Couldn’t stop listening. Best I have read in a long time.

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Heartbreaking

Will and Lou have my heart! Read the book and watched the movie, I weep every time!

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I cried!!!

Wow this book was something else very emotional but I liked it. Can’t wait till next month I am going to get another book from Jojo Moyes.

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Compelling

Well written story of past and future loves coupled with the challenges and tragedies faces by a person with physical disabilities.

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