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Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Jojo Moyes Q&A

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Ora Et Labora

Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8984 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The international bestselling author Jojo Moyes joins Simon and Matt for a Q&A. She gives us some great book recommendations, tells us a little about her reading and writing habits - and we find out who she'd invite to her fantasy dinner party. Lisa Jewell also makes a surprise appearance - to ask Jojo a question about being more sinister! You can hear more from Jojo on our previous episode, where we dive into her new novel, "We All Live Here" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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forward slash express. Hello, welcome. This is our Q&A with Jojo Moise. This is your Books of the Year podcast here.

0:47.0

If you'd like to hear Jojo talk about We All Live here, which is her new book, you will find that where you found this.

0:52.9

I assume you've probably listened to that bit first. It doesn't matter. We can go out of sequence here. Joe. Okay, so here we go.

1:01.2

What was the last book that you really, really enjoyed reading? And as I've mentioned before,

1:07.5

the second really is quite important. Don't give me just sort of, oh yeah, that was quite good.

1:11.5

Something that you have recommended to your friend's family and fellow authors.

1:16.6

Okay, it's called The Wedding People by Alison Espet. It was a New York Times bestseller,

1:22.1

which I realised after I'd read it. And it was one of those premises that you feel so annoyed with yourself

1:28.8

that you didn't come up with. So how come you picked up on it? Someone recommended it. And I needed

1:34.7

something for a holiday, I think, or some trip that I was doing. And I just wanted a light,

1:40.7

charming read. And a friend of mine, Jenny Colgan, recommended it. And I loved it

1:46.6

from the first page. And I don't think it's going to spoil it to say, it opens with a woman

1:52.4

at a hotel and you're not entirely sure why she's there. And then you realize that she's there

1:56.7

to end her life because her whole life has just gone into free fall.

2:01.6

And the whole of the hotel has been taken over by a wedding party

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