We All Live Here

Jojo Moyes is a British author and journalist. She also has experience writing screenplays. She was born and grew up in Maidstone, London. She went on to earn degrees in journalism and writing at City University and Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. In the years following, Moyes worked for The Independent newspaper (as both an assistant news editor and an arts and media correspondent). She also wrote for The Daily Telegraph, where her writing still sometimes appears. While pursuing a journalism career, Moyes began penning fiction manuscripts—the first three of which were rejected by publishers. In 2002, Moyes finally accomplished her dream of becoming a published fiction author with the publication of her debut novel, Sheltering Rain. This novel features the story “of three generations of Irish women faced with the fundamental truths of love, duty, and the unbreakable bond that unites mothers and daughters” (“Sheltering Rain.” GoodReads).

Since Sheltering Rain, Moyes has published over 15 full-length novels, as well as novellas and short stories. Her fiction titles include the books Foreign Fruit (2003), The Peacock Emporium (2004), The Ship of Brides (2005), Silver Bay (2007), Night Music (2008), The Horse Dancer (2009), The Last Letter From Your Lover (2011), The Girl You Left Behind (2012), Me Before You (2012), After You (2015), Still Me (2018), The One Plus One (2014), The Giver of Stars (2019), Someone Else’s Shoes (2023), and We All Live Here (2025).

The Last Letter From Your Lover was adapted into a 2021 romantic drama, directed by Augustine Frizzell and starring Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Shailene Woodley. Me Before You was also adapted into a film in 2016, which was directed by Thea Sharrock and stars Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, and Brendan Coyle. The film won the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie in 2017, the 2017 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films, and the 2017 Golden Trailer Award for Best Romance.

Moyes has achieved significant success in the literary world as a result of the positive reception of The Last Letter From Your Lover and Me Before You. The former novel won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2011. The latter title (and its companion novels, After You and Still Me) were awarded the Platinum Hall of Fame, Gold Hall of Fame, American Library Association, and Good Reads Best Fiction Awards. Me Before You was also a New York Times Best Seller. Moyes’s novels “have been translated into forty-six languages, hit the number one spot in twelve countries, sold over fifty-seven million copies worldwide and been Reese Witherspoon and Richard and Judy Book Club picks” (“About Jojo.” Jojo Moyes).

Moyes specializes in the romance genre, featuring stories of family, love, resilience, and redemption. Her stories can also be classified as women’s literature. She has cited writers including Nora Ephron, Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Tropper, and Jane Austen as her primary influences. Her titles are also in conversation with other contemporary romance and literary fiction novels, including Annabel Monaghan’s Summer Romance, Ann Pachett’s Tom Lake, Jessica Soffer’s This Is a Love Story, Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, and Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds. Like Monaghan, Pachett, Soffer, Moriarty, and Hannah, Moyes renders dimensional characters and complex relationships with empathy and wit.