more mojo than you could throw at lou's tights...more jojo than you could push the most reluctant of readers to open their eyes, turn the pages and read.

so go on, indulge yourself..get a little lost in the plot of the will he wont he..

this book from beginning to end is a soulful read. its lightness belies the seriousness of the dilemma faced by its participants. the story (for them at least) is a life changing one and for the reader it is indeed very compelling.. tearful...humouress..an all encompassing throw that hits you square in the stomach and will not allow you to breathe until you reach the end.. quite a book then i hear you say?.. one nods and admits that although it isn't the mayor of casterbridge, the subject matter is just as challenging and the characters are just as real and flawed but who, although challenged, ultimately win the day.

it brings up 'the' most daring of topics..what does a man do when he is stuck in a wheelchair as a quadraplegic with no hope of recovery? How does a family, faced with the strains of a marriage already doomed to fail, cope with the knowledge of their sons impending mortality?... enter lou... a vibrant, dress fussed, stressed out delightful scatterbrain who tries to hold it all together for them..

at first they all hate each other and lou wants to pack it in but circumstances pull her into this families life and will's in particular until she can't pull away.. at times she runs the risk of jeopardising her own happiness but then while searching to fulfil another's happiness finds her own.

Me Before You made me laugh, made me cry but its ultimate message is to listen and to try and understand what another person might need from life. the challenge ultimately is to be brave enough to accept them, even when they are totally against your own wishes and in looking at another's life - to be brave enough to have and want a life of your own.