Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Monday 16 April 2012

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

A novel about a banker who is in an accident and loses the use of his limbs. His mother hires a young woman to be his carer and, predictably, they develop a relationship.


My favourite scene is when the author describes the carer's trip with the banker to a classical music concert. The carer is from a working class family and it is the first time she has been to a classical musical concert. She is worried she will be bored. But then... the music begins...she is "rapt" and starts to cry as she has never heard anything so beautiful. What an imagination. [c.f. Care of Wooden Floors which contains a wonderful and much more realistic description of an audience member at a classical musical concert]


Overall though, if you don't mind a bit of literary cheese, this is a readable, fairly well written romantic novel with a predictable (but still bearable) plot.

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