After You: A Novel

Jojo Moyes

Sep 2015 · Me Before You Trilogy Book 2 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.”

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?
 
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
 
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
 
For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

Ratings and reviews

Obviously after reading me before you, I wanted to see what happened to Louisa after her loss of Will. I felt this story was a little slower than the first novel, but I still found it interesting. I thought it lagged in the middle - where I was hoping and hoping Louisa would come out of her funk already to a very slow avail. I'm definitely happy I read it, but not sure if Jojo Moyes were to create a third novel, if I would read it through to the end, as I feel a) it might let me down and b) it might take even more time to develop. Can I give After You a 3.8?

I hated the fact that Will still takes his life. I would have given it a different ending. It made me so sad and sick at the same time. I think U have no heart.😑

After reading this book, it makes me want to reread the first one again to relive Lou 's relationship with Will. I couldn't put it down. I liked all the characters and especially how it ended.

About the author

Jojo Moyes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, Still Me, Paris for One and Other Stories, After You, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, Me Before You, The Last Letter from Your Lover, The Horse Dancer, Silver Bay, The Ship of Brides, and The Peacock Emporium. The Last Letter from Your Lover is now available as a major motion picture on Netflix. She lives with her husband and three children in Essex, England.