{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Jojo Moyes","description":"Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and grew up in London and went on to work as a minicab controller, braille typer and brochure writer for Club 18-30, before settling on journalism. \nShe worked as a journalist for ten years, including a year at South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and nine at The Independent, before leaving to becoming a full-time novelist in 2002 around the publication of her first book, Sheltering Rain was published. \nSince then she has written a further eleven novels, including Me Before You which has sold more than eight million copies and was turned into a film starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games), with the screenplay written by Moyes. \nHer latest novel, Still Me, is the third in the trilogy following the character Louisa Clark, who first appeared in Me Before You. \nMoyes joined The Telegraph's Laura Powell to talk about the struggle to get her first novel published, the making of Me Before You, turning to therapy after leaving journalism - and her secret writing weapon.\n\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.","author_name":"The Telegraph"}