Jojo Moyes

British novelist and former journalist, born in London in 1969. Jojo Moyes read at Royal Holloway, University of London, and worked at The Independent for a decade before turning to fiction full-time. She is one of a handful of authors to have twice won the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year award (for Foreign Fruit in 2004 and The Last Letter from Your Lover in 2011). Her breakout novel Me Before You (2012) became an international bestseller and was adapted for the cinema in 2016; its sequels After You (2015) and Still Me (2018) followed. Her many other novels include The Girl You Left Behind, The Giver of Stars and Someone Else's Shoes, published in more than fifty languages.