That’s it. As of today, I have become a fully-fledged Jojo Moyes fan. I remember when I first read Me Before You, I was on a 12-hour flight and had read the whole book cover to cover. By the time I had finished, there were tears literally streaming down my face, as you can imagine this caused a few weird glances in my direction.
I then raced through After You, and now here we are. I have finished the last of the trilogy by Moyes and Still Me it was just as addictive as its predecessors. Louisa Clarke’s manic life finds her in New York, having departed from Sam the hunk paramedic, she flies across the pond to look after the strange and dysfunctional Gopnik’s.
This story highlights the life of the rich and the elite in society, a world where money doesn’t mean a thing. Thousands of pounds can be spent on a dress for one evening without a batter of the eyelid. In this world, Louisa has to rise up at 5am to jog with her boss, attend socialite events, and most importantly bear in the mind the number one rule of – not knowing anything and not asking any questions no matter what you see, after all, you are the paid help.
There is soon trouble in paradise as Louisa soon starts to question the relationships around her. Her life that she was once so comfortable and familiar with starts crumbling around her but you wonder if the reason it does, is so Louisa can experience new things, discover a side to her she hasn’t known before and meet people that turn out to surprise her.
My favorite quote:
Who is Louisa Clarke, anyway?
I was a daughter, a sister, a kind of surrogate mother for a time. I was a woman who cared for others but who seemed to have little idea, even now, how to care for herself.
This book doesn’t only mark the end of Louisa’s adventures, it isn’t only about the realisation of true love and sappy romance, it’s about self-discovery. The Lousia you meet in book one is very different from the one we see standing at the top of the Empire State building on the very last page of the third book.
Mishelle Thurai 