This life-affirming tearjerker more than deserves its recognition as one of the most memorable books of the last decade

You might have seen the film, but we promise the book is better - you won't be able to forget quirky Lou's joruney with Will as she becomes his caregiver and their relationship blossoms. You will be needing tissues

Arm yourself with tissues for this incredibly emotional bestseller

Utterly absorbing and blissfully romantic

The only book that ever made me cry. I wept so much I thought I might not stop!

This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it

A compelling novel of life and death decisions and unlikely affections. It's magical and heartbreaking, but doesn't shy away from difficult emotional realities. Waterproof mascara essential

A timeless love story

Destined to be the novel that friends press upon each other more than any other . . . Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling; Lou and Will are a couple who readers will take into their hearts as they did One Day's Emma and Dex

A deftly plotted narrative populated with likeable engaging characters . . . A bittersweet story about love, learning and letting go. A tremendous read

Beautifully written

Funny, believable and heartbreaking

A perceptive and moving tale

When I finished this novel, I didn't want to review it: I wanted to reread it. Which might seem perverse if you know that for most of the last hundred pages I was dissolved in tears. Jojo Moyes, the writer who produced this emotional typhoon, knows very well that Me Before You is a 'real weepy'. Moyes's story provokes tears that are redemptive, the opposite of gratuitous. Some situations, she forces the reader to recognise, really are worth crying over . . . An affair to remember

A triumph

Jojo Moyes' poignantly romantic tales have readers streaming their way through boxes of Kleenex . . . Me Before You is compelling reading. A profound, fundamental, thought-provoking conundrum lies at the heart of the story, a huge moral dilemma, explored with great fictional finesse. Devotees of Jojo Moyes and newcomers alike will settle into this entertaining book with gusto

A small-life-big-dreams weepie that'll have you snivelling ecstatically into your cocoa

Keep the tissues close . . . A heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting tale

A romantic, thought-provoking tear-jerker that you won't be able to put down

An unlikely love story . . . To be devoured like candy, between tears

A disarmingly moving love story . . . A lovely novel, both nontraditional and enthralling

Funny, surprising and heartbreaking, populated with characters who are affecting and amusing . . . This is a thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining novel that captures the complexity of love

Read it and weep: Heartbreak collides with humour in Jojo Moyes's Me Before You

Jojo Moyes has done it again with this funny, touching tale that is impossible to put down. Make sure you have a box of tissues to hand!

Poignant and beautifully written, this book will stay with you long after you've put it down

The compelling portrait of an unlikely couple

This tale of love-against-the-odds . . . breaks your heart one minute, only to send it soaring again. Keep the tissues close!

Poignant, heartfelt . . . Me Before You, at its heart, is about two people who properly listen to each other; it is something good

Compelling, moving and absorbing. It's also a real weepie

A triumph. Her story of love blossoming in the most unlikely of ways packs such an emotional punch, you'll need a box of tissues

Me Before You is a page-turner that sucks the reader into caring about the fate of the heroine. By turns funny and moving but never predictable. The plot contains a number of surprises and raises thoughtful questions

PRAISE FOR JOJO MOYES

Manages to be both a gorgeously romantic and partner-ignoringly compulsive read

This wonderfully original debut novel unspools at the stormy crossroads that separate the living and the dead... Banwo has created a unique world expansive enough to contain a ghost story, a love story, a mysterious mythology, and a thoughtful examination of how family bonds keep us firmly rooted to our pasts... [She] deftly weaves the realistic and the fantastic into a strange and compelling tapestry, a world readers will happily return to, even if they don't usually gravitate toward fantasy

[A] love story threaded through with supernatural events and dangerous secrets

One Day I Shall Astonish the World by the always entertaining Nina Stibbe is a story of female friendship

In April look out for...Love, Nina writer Nina Stibbe's One Day I Shall Astonish The World

Nina Stibbe is one of the great comic writers of our time

Stibbe is one of the all-time greats

Very few writers can find the delicate balance between heartbreak and hilarity like Nina Stibbe

Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish

Joyful. Stibbe's comedy probes what it means to become an adult

Pitch perfect vintage comedy

I love everything Nina Stibbe writes and this was my favourite of the novels. It's so sharp and painful and brilliantly funny. There are sentences you could eat for Christmas dinner. If you haven't read it already - you probably have but just in case - I really do think you'd love it

Riveting drama packed with suspense and secrets

Like drinking a pink Cosmo laced with arsenic . . . a fun, engaging and sometimes disturbing read

Perfect

Fascinating and compassionate

I loved every line of it

Funny and captivating

A cracking story cleverly told