Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesnt know is shes about to lose her job or that knowing whats coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how hes going to put a stop to that. What Will doesnt know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows theyre going to change the other for all time.

This is a new novel for 2015 from the number one bestselling author of The One Plus One and Me Before You. Praise for Jojo Moyes: Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy. A masterclass in story-telling. (Elle). Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling. (Independent on Sunday). Jojo Moyes's poignantly romantic tales have readers streaming their way through boxes of Kleenex. (Sunday Express). I want you to read this book, indeed to read all of Jojo Moyes' books, because they tell truths about modern life. If you're a sentient, empathic, living, breathing human I would urge you to give it a go. (The World Book Night book club). About the author: Jojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You, and the number one bestseller The One Plus One. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.

Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for — or just more questions? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in... A tender, funny and hopeful look at love, grief and life. Bumper box of tissues required' Stylist.

Bestselling author Jojo Moyes brings us a charming and heart-warming short story in association with Quick Reads. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend. Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend doesn't turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell meets the mysterious moped-riding Fabien and his group of carefree friends. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life? Praise for Jojo Moyes: Beautifully written. (The Sun). A heartbreaking, laugh-out-loud, roller coaster. (Sunday Express). Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best. (Marie Claire). Jojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You, top ten bestseller The Girl you Left Behind and her most recent novel, number one bestseller The One Plus One. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.

For two couples in Paris, over a century apart, marriage is only the beginning of their love stories... For Sophie, a provincial girl at heart, it is easy to be swept up in the glamour of belle epoque Paris. But she quickly discovers that loving a feted artist like Edouard Lefevre brings undreamt of complications. Over a hundred years later, Liv is looking forward to her Parisian honeymoon with her husband, David, following their whirlwind romance. But arriving in the city, it quickly turns out not to be the romantic getaway she had been hoping for...

Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.One eternal optimist... Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. But no one told her it's okay to ask for help.Plus one lost stranger... Ed Nichols is the good guy gone bad. He had it all, then one stupid mistake cost him everything. Now he'll do anything to make it right.Equals a chance encounter... Ed doesn't want to save anyone and Jess doesn't want saving, but could Jess and Ed add up to something better together?Praise for The One Plus One:'A beautifully written love story I relished' Daily Mail'A heartbreaking, laugh-out-loud, roller coaster' Sunday Express'An uplifting, charming, life-affirming tale that you won't want to put down' Heat'Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best' Marie ClaireJojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You and top ten bestseller The Girl you Left Behind. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.

«Al centro di questo racconto due romantiche e tormentate storie d'amore quella di Sophie e Édouard Lefevre in Francia durante la Prima guerra mondiale e, circa un secolo dopo, quella di Liv Halston e suo marito David. «Luna di miele a Parigi» — uscito in Inghilterra solo in ebook — si svolge alcuni anni prima degli eventi narrati nel romanzo La ragazza che hai lasciato, quando le due coppie si sono appena sposate. Sophie, una ragazza di provincia, si ritrova immersa nell'affascinante mondo della Belle époque parigina ma si rende conto ben presto che amare un artista apprezzato come Édouard implica qualche spiacevole complicazione. Circa un secolo più tardi anche Liv, travolta da una storia d'amore appassionante, scopre però che la sua luna di miele parigina non è la fuga romantica che aveva sperato...»

Einmal angenommendein Mann hat sich aus dem Staub gemacht. Du schaffst es kaum, deine Familie über Wasser zu halten. Deine hochbegabte Tochter bekommt eine einmalige Chance. Und du bist zu arm, um ihren Traum Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Plötzlich liegt da ein Bündel Geldscheine. Du weißt, dass es falsch ist. Aber auf einen Schlag wäre dein Leben so viel einfacherUnd einmal angenommen, du strandest mitten in der Nacht mit deinen Kindern am Straßenrand und genau der Mann, dem das Geld gehört, bietet an, euch mitzunehmen. Würdest du einsteigen? Würdest du ihm irgendwann während eures verrückten Roadtrips gestehen, was du getan hast?Und kann das gutgehen, wenn du dich ausgerechnet in diesen Mann verliebst?

Du sollst wissen, dass du mein Herz in deinen Händen hältst 1960. Jennifer Stirling müsste eigentlich glücklich sein: Sie führt ein sorgloses Leben an der Seite ihres wohlhabenden Mannes. Doch ihr Herz gehört einem anderen und er bittet sie, alles für ihn aufzugeben. 2003. Ellie Haworth hat ihren Traumjob gefunden: Sie ist Journalistin bei einer der führenden Zeitungen Londons. Eigentlich müsste sie glücklich sein. Doch der Mann, den sie liebt, gehört einer anderen. Eines Tages fällt Ellie im Archiv ein Jahrzehnte alter Brief in die Hände: Der unbekannte Absender bittet seine Geliebte, ihren Ehemann zu verlassen und mit ihm nach New York zu gehen. Als Ellie diese Zeilen liest, ist sie erschüttert. Was ist aus den beiden und ihrer Liebe geworden? Sie stellt Nachforschungen an und stößt auf Jennifer: eine Frau, die alles verloren hat. Alles, außer einer Handvoll kostbarer Worte. Wer die Liebe nicht kennt, kennt nichts. Wer sie hat, hat alles.

Louisa Clark weiß, dass nicht viele in ihrer Heimatstadt ihren etwas schrägen Modegeschmack teilen. Sie weiß, dass sie gerne in dem kleinen Café arbeitet und dass sie ihren Freund Patrick eigentlich nicht liebt. Sie weiß nicht, dass sie schon bald ihren Job verlieren wird und wie tief das Loch ist, in das sie dann fällt. Will Traynor weiß, dass es nie wieder so sein wird wie vor dem Unfall. Und er weiß, dass er dieses neue Leben nicht führen will. Er weiß nicht, dass er schon bald Lou begegnen wird. Eine Frau und ein Mann. Eine Liebesgeschichte, anders als alle anderen.Die Liebesgeschichte von Lou und Will.

On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, twenty-one-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiance again for a year. In 1980, eighteen-year-old Patricia's rebellion is to run away to from County Wexford with her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents she doesn't know, and finds that time in Wexford seems to have stood still. When Sabine, her mother and grandmother are brought together, not only is a deeply buried family secret is discovered, but also some fundamental truths: about the conflict between love and duty, about women's choices, and about mothers and daughters.

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions.

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent — only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life. Natasha is a lawyer whose job is to represent the best interests of children. Her confidence in her judgement has been shaken and her marriage has died — but an encounter with Sarah may lead to Natasha learning all she needs to know about life from a fourteen-year-old girl and a large horse named Boo...

The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house is a potential lifeline — the only hope she has of providing for her two children without having to sell her most treasured possession. But for neighbour Matt McCarthy, the house is revenge — on the family who ruined his father. For his wife it's the key to the perfect family life, while a struggling property developer sees in it a whole new future. As desires clash and intertwine, lives and loves are demolished — and the Spanish House becomes a true folly indeed...

The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England — aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. Rules of honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined. And Frances Mackenzie — the enigmatic young bride whose past comes back to haunt her thousands of miles from home — will find that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.

In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy. At odds with her father and his second wife, struggling in a stalled marriage, she returns to the place of her birth to find that the ghost of her mother, in differing ways, still haunts them all. The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shop-cum-curio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina.But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long — and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along.

Liza McCullen will never escape her past. But the unspoilt beaches and tight-knit community ofSilverBay offer the freedom and safety she craves — if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. Until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel, and the peace ofSilverBay is shattered. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and disturbing gaze could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbours her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love — never deserve to love — again.