Me Before You

JOJO MOYES

Me Before You

PENGUIN BOOKS

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Q&A with Jojo

PENGUIN BOOKS

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and brought up in

London. A journalist and writer, she worked for

The Independent newspaper until 2001. She lives

in East Anglia with her husband and three children. She is the author of nine novels, two of

which, The Last Letter From Your Lover (2010)

and Foreign Fruit (2003), have won the RNA

Novel of the Year award.

www.jojomoyes.com

www.twitter.com/jojomoyes

To Charles, with love

PROLOGUE

2007

When he emerges from the bathroom she is

awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through the travel brochures that were beside

his bed. She is wearing one of his T-shirts, and

her long hair is tousled in a way that prompts reflexive thoughts of the previous night. He stands

there, enjoying the brief flashback, rubbing the

water from his hair with a towel.

She looks up from a brochure and pouts. She is

probably slightly too old to pout, but they’ve been

going out a short enough time for it still to be

cute.

‘Do we really have to do something that involves trekking up mountains, or hanging over

ravines? It’s our first proper holiday together,

and there is literally not one single trip in these

that doesn’t involve either throwing yourself off

something or –’ she pretends to shudder ‘– wearing fleece.’

She throws them down on the bed, stretches

her caramel-coloured arms above her head. Her

voice is husky, testament to their missed hours

of sleep. ‘How about a luxury spa in Bali? We

could lie around on the sand … spend hours being pampered … long relaxing nights … ’...