I don’t think there’s a book of hers I haven’t enjoyed. I read it by a pool one sunny day, and when I closed it at the end it was like having had an entire vacation.

I’m not sure I will though.I read in one sitting, it was that good: It made me believe that slightly weedy little girls can achieve anything given enough willpower. It was fascinating pressing it on friends and seeing if they loved or hated it. I had not expected to be moved by a book about computer game creation. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It was the final chapter, and I remember sobbing so hard that half the train carriage was watching. I recommended this tentatively to a Hollywood actress and she said, “Oh honey, I was given 28 copies of this when I got divorced.” …made me miss a train stop: Likes: Molecules and Chanel perfumes, leather jeans, Frenchie Covent Garden restaurant, her massage chair, online Scrabble.

She has two Bosnian rescue dogs named Sisu and Pablo, a cat, Eric, and horses Joey, Mabel, Fred, and Strider started an online antiques auction habit during lockdown collecting portraits of “Women Who Have Had Enough of Your Shit” keeps bees runs, boxes, and scuba dives and can tell in five minutes whether a film is directed by a man or woman. Though the London-based Moyes (given name Pauline Sara Jo, nickname from the Beatles’s “Get Back”) wanted to be a blacksmith and bought her first horse at 14 with money earned working stables, she ended up in journalism, including at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and The Independent in London. She’s also at work on a television comedy pilot. Her books have sold more than 40 million copies, and two others were made or will be made into movies including The Last Letter from Your Lover and The Giver of Stars. They figure in Moyes’s 2012 hit Me Before You, which she adapted for the big screen starring Emilia Clarke that took in more than $200 million at the box office. A pair of Louboutins changes the course of two women’s lives in Jojo Moyes’s 17th novel, Someone Else’s Shoes (Pamela Dorman Books audiobook narrated by Daisy Ridley), though the fashion item the international bestselling author may be better known for is a pair of bumblebee-striped tights.

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