Me Before You

About the Me Before You series

Louisa "Lou" Clark is an unambitious young woman from a small English town who takes a job as a caregiver to Will Traynor, a once-adventurous former banker left quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident. Will has quietly decided to end his life at a Swiss assisted-dying clinic in six months' time, and Lou -- initially hired simply to keep him company -- sets out to change his mind by showing him reasons to keep living. Me Before You (2012) became a publishing phenomenon and a 2016 film starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, as celebrated for its romance as it was debated for its ending and its handling of disability and assisted dying.

After You (2015) picks up Lou's life in the aftermath, following her as she tries to rebuild an identity for herself while still shaped by grief for Will and by a promise he asked her to keep. Still Me (2018) sends her further still, to a new life and job in New York City, testing how much of who she's become she owes to Will and how much is genuinely her own. Across all three books, Jojo Moyes builds Lou from a supporting character defined by someone else's choice into the trilogy's true protagonist, tracing grief, independence and self-invention with the same warm, propulsive voice that made the first book a global bestseller.