This sequel to Me Before Me picks up about 18 months later and Lou has yet to properly move on with her life. Her small world revolves around her job at an airport bar and her London flat. After an accident, she starts to attend grief counselling group sessions, listening to others discuss how hard it is to move on after loss. Then someone shows up on Lou’s doorstep, and letting go seems harder than ever. I have to admit like many Me Before You fans, I was apprehensive about this sequel. But from the first chapter, when Lou is up on the roof terrace of her flat, the story immediately takes a dramatic turn, delivering surprises, sentimental moments and lots of soul-searching. As the promise of a new man in her life unfolds, I was relieved to find it a fully satisfying continuation of Lou’s story.
After You is the much-anticipated sequel to Jojo Moyes' Me Before You. The summary says: "How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding - the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future... For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings." After You is out in September 2015.