Me Before You
Readers rate it 4.0 (922 on Hardcover)
385 pages · Released 2012 · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
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Me Before You is an adult contemporary romance centered on a caregiver and her employer, a quadriplegic man struggling with suicidal ideation following his accident. While there is genuine warmth and growth between the characters, the novel's central conflict involves end-of-life decisions and depression, making it emotionally heavy and inappropriate for younger teens. The romantic and sexual content is moderate but present, and some language includes mild profanity.
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Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair-bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge l... Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair-bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A love story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
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- Young women
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
- Fiction
- Paraplegics
- Fiction, women
- Fiction, romance, contemporary
- Young women, fiction
- People with disabilities, fiction
- Contemporary Women
- Entrepreneurship
- Paralysis
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ISBN 9780670026609 · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking