The content of the book is about Louisa Clark – a girl with a normal life, with a happy boyfriend. You can fall in love with them, be irritated by them, laugh with them - what someone is physically able to do should be unimportant.Me Before You is the first novel in the Me Before You Trilogy series by famous author Jojo Moyes. What I want to convey with the story is that a disability is the least important part of a person. “This book - more than any of my books - is important to me because it’s the book that changed my life,” she said. It’s “far scarier,” she said to release a movie than a book - fans have expectations, there’s more money at stake and, of course, at least 70% of the audience has to cry. Moyes took to screenwriting so well that she’s already adapted another of her novels, “One Plus One.” Still, the impending release of “Me Before You” is keeping her up nights. It was a bit like being in a newsroom, with all the adrenaline and camaraderie.” “My favorite thing was punching up the scenes with the director. “I ended up loving the process and went on set every day,” said the writer, who is married to a journalist and has three children. Until 2000, Moyes was a reporter at the British newspaper the Independent, where she’d covered the death of Princess Diana and sectarian violence in Belfast. She went online and started reading the scripts of all the films she loved - everything from “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” to “Alien.” Her varied writing background helped too: Not only did Moyes have almost a dozen books under her belt at the time but she’d also spent years working as a journalist. So she began to entertain the idea, giving herself a crash-course in screenwriting. And then Karen Rosenfelt, a producer on the project, asked Moyes if she’d ever considered writing the screenplay herself - a prospect the writer had assumed “would be the studio’s worst nightmare.” and MGM, which together are releasing the film June 3. She went with the partnership of Warner Bros. Suddenly, Moyes had calls from a dozen producers interested in turning her book into a movie.

in January 2013, the New York Times Sunday Book Review gave the novel a rave review.

When “Me Before You” was published in the U.S. I was gutted.įortunately, things turned around pretty quickly. The distributors of my film pulled out because they said there can’t be two films about quadriplegics.

Me before you book series