Jojo Moyes, writer

Jojo Moyes is a British novelist and screenwriter.

She began her writing career as a journalist and worked at the Egham and Staines News, Independent and South China Morning Post.

Whilst working nightshifts on the Independent, she pursued her novel writing ambitions and wrote books by day. Her first few books were well received but did not topple the best seller lists. That all changed in 2012 when her novel You Before Me was published. Readers fell in love with the story of Louisa Clark, who takes a job looking after an angry young quadriplegic man. The book sold fifteen million copies, was made into a film and Jojo wrote two sequels. Her novels are beloved of book clubs and have sold in excess of fifty seven million copies and have been translated into forty-six languages.

Jojo lives in London.

DISC ONE: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Laughing Version) (Live) - Elvis Presley
DISC TWO: Golden Slumbers - The Beatles
DISC THREE: Silly Games - Janet Kay
DISC FOUR: The Art Teacher - Rufus Wainwright
DISC FIVE: Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K.339: 5. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Ps. 116/117) Composed by Mozart and performed by Edith Mathis (soprano), MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig (choir), Staatskapelle Dresden (orchestra), conducted by Peter Schreier
DISC SIX: Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell
DISC SEVEN: A Better Time to Meet - Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek
DISC EIGHT: Je L’Aime à Mourir - Francis Cabrel

BOOK CHOICE: The complete works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
LUXURY ITEM: A mechanical horse
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Laughing Version - Live) - Elvis Presley

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Producer Sarah Taylor

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