Me Before You
Me Before You • Book 1
by Jojo Moyes
Narrated by Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, Alex Tregear, Andrew Wincott, Owen Lindsay
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Six narrators means six ways this story destroys you — and it works every single time.
- Great if you want: an emotional gut-punch disguised as a romance
- Listening experience: warm and tender early, then devastatingly heavy — bring tissues
- Narration: full cast gives Lou, Will, and family distinct, lived-in voices
- Skip if: assisted dying storylines are too difficult to sit with
About This Audiobook
Louisa Clark takes a job caring for Will Traynor — quadriplegic since an accident, brilliant, acerbic, and thoroughly convinced that his current life is not worth living. Louisa disagrees, and over the months of their arrangement, she makes it her project to show him otherwise, while both of them fall slowly into something neither was looking for. Jojo Moyes's novel asks a question that most love stories avoid: can love be enough, and what happens when someone you love makes a choice you cannot accept?
The full-cast production features Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, and others in a recording that gives the novel's ensemble cast their individual voices and social textures. The period-accurate detail of the British class distinctions that separate Louisa and Will comes through in the vocal performances. At just under 15 hours, Me Before You is a love story that earns its ending through careful preparation rather than easy emotion.
