She’s never worked as a carer before, but the pay’s better than at the chicken processing plant, and Lou’s been assured there’ll be no wiping of, you know, required (there’s a trained carer for that stuff).Ĭamilla Traynor has told Lou she’s basically needed as a companion for her son, Will, who is a quadriplegic since a traffic accident two years ago.
So when the Buttered Bun closes down, Lou needs another job pronto. Louisa Clark’s café wages are much relied-upon: her mum, Josie is the stay-at-home carer for Granddad all of her sister Katrina’s pay goes to bringing up her own young son and her dad Bernard’s job at the furniture factory is looking less secure every day. Me Before You is the first book in the Me Before You series by award-winning British author, Jojo Moyes. Ultimately a heart-wrenching love story, this novel is also funny and thought-provoking
On a final note, read Me Before You at your own peril because whether you love it, hate it, or don’t know how to feel, it is certain to stay with you for a long time regardless.
Maybe it was the story that did this, or maybe it is reflective of the emotional place I was in at the time of reading, but regardless, I am grateful to it for that. Despite my disappointment as well as the emotional abuse suffered by the hands of the author, I finished this book with a sense of achievement as this was the first book to make me cry out loud which was also done in a very ugly way. You can see the end coming, but you cannot do anything to stop it you are hostage to your own twisted devotion to “Happily Ever After”. Reading this book was similar to being a train crash victim. Yes, I know it was naïve of me to think that these two love birds would get together in the end but how am I supposed to think else wise when everything from the tone of voice to key plot points (ie, two completely different people forced into each other’s company) has the air of a mills and boon formula. Lou, 20-something, has been made redundant from her waitressing job and is forced to take the position of carer for Will, an also 20-something ex lawyer who has been paralysed due to a freak accident.
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