After You: A Novel

By Jojo Moyes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?   Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.   Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .   For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

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Published Jul 19, 2016

448 pages

Average rating: 7.29

172 RATINGS

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Readers say *After You* offers a heartfelt exploration of grief and moving forward, with Louisa’s evolving journey resonating emotionally. Many apprec...

Cresta McGowan
4/10 stars
I really liked the first book. Louisa Clark was an interesting character, and her development was solid. This book, and the addition of Lily, was too cliché and it was difficult to like much about it. Disappointing.
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8/10 stars
A nice sequel to Me Before You. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Dessy B.
10/10 stars
I liked how the book shows the emotional struggle of people in grief and how society expects you just to move on after some time and the long way to go. At the same time, the book is easier to read than "Me before you," which was very emotional for me.
Carmen Maldonado
6/10 stars
I’m absolutely sure that the author hates Louisa Clark.

This book was really painful for her.

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LadyAmandaW
8/10 stars
Wasn't as good as the first one, but it came to a nice ending. I still enjoyed the story but I do feel that the randomness of Will having a daughter was pretty hard to accept because it just seemed that the author was like how can I make a sequel, oh I will have Will have a daughter that he doesn't know about. I like that we got to know what happened in Lou's life after Will's passing, but it still wasn't as good as the first.