Ambulance Sam features strongly, but I don’t want to spoil any of that for you, so suffice to say, he’s there and a lot goes on between him and Lou along the way. There are plenty of highs and lows for Lou in Still Me, as well as some really lovely reminiscing about Will. They’re still there, proud as punch of Lou and ready to regale her via email, letters, phone calls and visits, with tales on all she’s missing from home.
And if like me, you really love Lou’s family, don’t be concerned about the distance between New York and London. I’ve always wanted to go to New York and I feel as though I had a little taster while reading Still Me, that’s how well demonstrated the setting was by Jojo Moyes. This was a wonderful story, filled with all of the things we love about Lou, combined with a New York atmosphere that was so richly detailed, I could envisage it perfectly. And live boldly she does, although not necessarily always in the way she might have preferred. In Still Me, Lou is in New York, trying her hardest to ‘say yes’ to as many things as possible in a bid at following Will’s advice to ‘live boldly’. They really are a lovely set of books, so heartfelt and entertaining.
In After You, Louisa was very much still finding her feet after the loss of Will and now, since reading Still Me, I feel as though After You was a bit of a bridge connecting the Lou from Me Before You with the Lou in Still Me. I enjoyed Still Me slightly more than After You. Even after three books, I still feel as though Louisa has plenty to offer and I’d happily pick up a fourth book about her. I wonder, when Jojo Moyes first created Louisa Clark in Me Before You, if she had any idea just how larger than life this character would become. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you reconcile a heart that lives in two places? In Still Me, as Lou tries to keep the two sides of her world together, she finds herself carrying secrets – not all her own – that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New York life within this privileged world.īefore she knows what’s happening, Lou is mixing in New York high society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past.
She is hurled into the world of the super-rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. The third Lou Clark novel by Jojo Moyes, following the number one international bestsellers Me Before You and After You.
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