About Jojo Moyes
Life Story/Accomplishments
Jojo Moyes was born in 1969, she grew up in London, England and after working various jobs such as a minicab controller, typer of braille statements for blind people for NatWest, and brochure writer for Club 18-30, she attended Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. Moyes received an award in which she had a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University. Moyes held the career of a journalist for 10 years before entering the world of publishing novels, in 2002. Moyes has won the Romantic Novelist’s Award twice and has had novels nominated for Book of the Year at the UK Galaxy Book Awards. Her book Me Before You has sold an amount of more than 3 million worldwide. Moyes currently lives in Essex, England with her husband, a journalist, and their three children.
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Writing Style
It is evident that in The Girl You Left Behind Moyes used that she grew up in London while choosing a setting for the novel. Unlike some authors, Moyes took on the challenge of having two stories within one novel, a very intentional thing as both stories wrap up together. The way in which Moyes choose to have the novel organized is what intrigued me most; she begins in 1916 in France then does a spin and suddenly we are in London 90 years later with what seems to be an entirely different story. Moyes on a website in which she can interact with fans states this interesting fact, "For The Girl You Left Behind, when I wanted to evoke the cold and bleakness of 1916 wartorn France, I used Riceboy Sleeps Jonsi and Alex. I can't listen to anything with lyrics (too distracting!), so it's often ambient or classical music." Additionally, she spoke about other books in which she listened to Rupert Wainwright's Agnus Dei. Music seems to have set the tone for her books, she has a very real way of writing which not only are you drawn for into the story but you would not be surprised if someone mentioned that it was, in fact, a real life story.