Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes, born in London in 1969 is a British novelist.

Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London and Bedford New College, London University.

In 1992 she won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University, London. She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post) in various roles, becaoming Assistant News Editor in 1988. In 2002 she became the newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent .

Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. She continues to write articles for The Daily Telegraph.

Moyes is one of only a few authors to have won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year Award twice. She first won the award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit and in 2011 for "The Last Letter From Your Lover"

Moyes is represented by Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown (literary agents).

List of works

• Sheltering Rain (2002)
• Foreign Fruit (2003) (published in the US as Windfallen)
• The Peacock Emporium (2004) (published in German as Suzanna's Coffee-Shop)
• The Ship of Brides (2005)
• Silver Bay (2007)
• Night Music (2008)
• The Horse Dancer (2009)
• "The Last Letter From Your Lover"' (2010)
• "Me Before You"" (2012)

Personal Life

Moyes lives on a farm in Saffron Walden, Essex with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.

External links

• Jojo Moyes official website
• Review of Silver Bay in The Times
• Biography and bibliography at Curtis Brown Literary Agency