“I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.”

English journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, since 2002

Jojo Moyes is an English journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. Born Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, she has been writing professionally since 2002 and is known for her romance novels and screen work. Her novels have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 28 languages. She is among the few writers to have won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award twice from the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she is also a number-one New York Times best-selling author.