They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. You will not regret reading this (the fact that it is free and available right now is further incentive).Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. This brief narrative struck the right chords and felt like a natural segueway to the way in which the last book ended. I wrote in my review for the third book ( Still Me) that it should be Lou's swan song but I am so glad that Moyes brought Lou back. This short story is a fantastic compliment to the Me Before You series. I started off laughing and ended up crying. This is a hearfelt and humorous narrative. The Clark family antics are full display and quite delightful (Lou's mum, in particular, is fantastic in this story). First off, this narrative is oh-so-very-relatable. When Lou struggles to remain optimistic, she finds hope in unexpected ways. Now she is stuck back home while Sam is a paramedic back in New York, which leaves her feelling quite dreadful. Lou has a vintage clothes rental business back in New York called The Bees Knees Clothes Agency, is in a good relationship with Sam and has her life back on track. Moyes' whimsy style is all over this piece and it shows. I just love, love, love, love, love this short story! In her signature style, Lou finds hope amid stressful events.

Lou figures its only a short wait but as the days add on she begins to fret. The outbreak of the Covid virus has left her stuck back at her parents house. When its time to go back to New York, she can not book a flight out. Lou Clark is on a shopping spree for her vintage clothes rental business in England. I enjoyed the break from my own scratchiness, and I’ll bet you could too. Sam reminds her that mountaineers say “Don’t look up. Hers love her, and she loves them, but by golly, if Lou wants to dive under the duvet (doona, quilt) and be left alone to be miserable and missing Sam, she should be entitled to. Parents are parents, no matter how old you are. It’s what you’d expect from JoJo Moyes – a family of people who love each other but get a bit scratchy in these circumstances. This is a warm, tender little short story about Lou caught in England, away from Sam, who’s a paramedic in New York.

I sat on the phone to the airline waiting to change my ticket and wondering for the 15th time why nobody was responding. I’m more likely to buy it its own first class ticket and send it home before me.’

“ ‘Don’t you dare go back to New York and leave all those boxes blocking the garage,’ Mum said.

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes