Jojo Moyes is a novelist and journalist. Her books include the bestsellers Me Before You, After You and Still Me, The Girl You Left Behind, The One Plus One and her short story collection Paris for One and Other Stories. Her novels have been translated into forty-six languages, have hit the number one spot in twelve countries and have sold over thirty-eight million copies worldwide.Me Before You has now sold over fourteen million copies worldwide and was adapted into a major film starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke.
A Guardian reader set a challenge for Moyes: "I'm tired of sad and depressing themes, but want something that’s not a romcom in
book form. Are there any happy novels that are also literary?"One of five books Moyes offered in reply:
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe. Or in fact any novel by Nina Stibbe. She has a very British comedic way of writing, in which it’s possible to detect everything from Wodehouse to the Mitfords, but in a grubbier, modern setting.Read about another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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