Half a year (novel)

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A whole half year (original title: Me Before You ) is a novel by the British writer Jojo Moyes from 2012.

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Louisa Clark is actually quite happy with her life so far until she loses her job in a café. She starts a new job as a carer, in which she is supposed to look after the moody and depressed wheelchair user Will Traynor for six months, who no longer considers his life worth living. After initial teething problems, the two get closer and closer over time and Louisa notices that her happiness is becoming more and more important. She tries to show him within a period of six months, after which he wants to kill himself, that his life is worth living.

Despite their time together, which Will and Louisa both enjoyed immensely, Will decides to end his life. He can't stand to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After his death in a Swiss euthanasia organization, Louisa finds out that he left her a great inheritance with which Louisa should live her life to the fullest.

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The novel was a commercial success and has been translated into 32 languages. More than five million copies have been sold worldwide, two million of them in Germany alone. In 2014, a whole six months was the best-selling paperback in Germany.

In 2015, the continuation of the novel with the title A whole new life followed (original title: After You ) .

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In 2016, a film adaptation of the novel was released with Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin in the two leading roles. Theater director Thea Sharrock directed the film and Moyes wrote the script herself.

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  1. ↑ Jojo Moyes' Me Before You is Number One in Germany on curtisbrown.co.uk, accessed June 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ 2014 bestseller list on buchreport.de, accessed on June 4, 2016.