For example, Me Before You was inspired by a story she heard on the news about a rugby player, while The Giver of Stars is based on the true story of the Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky. She pulls inspiration from people and conversations, which gives her books a heart-breaking, sometimes humorous, but always realistic trademark. Even still she contributes articles occasionally to publications such as The Guardian and The Telegraph, but writing books is her full-time job and passion. Jojo Moyes was a journalist for many years with the British newspaper The Independent before she became a published author. So, keep reading if you would like to learn more about all of the Jojo Moyes books in order. In fact, Me Before You was published a decade after Moyes’s debut. Lou, of course, finally realises her ambition to visit Paris, where she gazes longingly into the window of l’Artisan Parfumeur, when it stood at 2 Rue de l'Amiral de Coligny (the store has since moved to Boulevard Saint-Germain).Jojo Moyes is the bestselling author of the beloved and heart-breaking Me Before You series, but she has also written a dozen other novels. The hotel is a few miles east of Port de Pollença, up on the northeastern tip of the island. The exotic holiday in ‘Mauritius’ was filmed on the island of Mallorca in the Spanish Balearic Islands, at the Barceló Formentor Hotel and along the adjoining beach. If you're in the area, Amersham is home to the two inns which became The Jolly Boatman in Four Weddings And A Funeral. The wedding was filmed at St Michael's Church at Chenies, a couple of miles east of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church alongside Chenies Manor House – a frequent film location itself, seen in Woody Allen’s Cassandra's Dream, with Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, as well as TV productions such as Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and 2008’s Little Dorritt. Opened in 1875, one of the first racecourses in England to charge admission, Sandown Park still operates today. The contrastingly modest exterior of the working-class Clark house was filmed in Harrow in North London, while a private home in Esher, Surrey, doubled as the premises of the ‘Dignitas’ clinic in Switzerland,Īlso in Esher, Sandown Park Racecourse was used for both the day at the races and to stand in as the airport check-in. All of the exteriors immediately around the house and the interior of the main house were shot there. ‘Grantchester House’, the Traynor family home within the castle walls, is Wytham Abbey, a private manor house in Oxfordshire. In the town of Pembroke itself, the ‘Buttered Bun’ and the ‘Riverside Picture House’ were faked on Main Street. The castle, dating back to 1093 and renowned as the birth place of King Henry VII and the Tudor dynasty, was a major location for Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky and briefly seen at the beginning of 1968 drama The Lion In Winter, with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. The unspecified ‘English’ town, where manic pixie dream-girl Lou Clark ( Emilia Clarke) is hired to look after dour, depressed quadriplegic Will Traynor ( Sam Claflin), is the south Wales town of Pembroke, dominated by Pembroke Castle in the grounds of which the wealthy Traynor family is supposed to live. Jojo Moyes’ best-selling weepie gets a predictably soapie movie treatment from erstwhile stage director Thea Sharrock.
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