Penguin Books One Plus One

Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes. One eternal optimist...Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. But no one told her it's okay to ask for help. Plus one lost stranger...Ed Nichols is the good guy gone bad. He had it all, then one stupid mistake cost him everything. Now he'll do anything to make it right. Equals a chance encounter...Ed doesn't want to save anyone and Jess doesn't want saving, but could Jess and Ed add up to something better together? Praise for The One Plus One: "A beautifully written love story I relished". (Daily Mail). "A heartbreaking, laugh-out-loud, roller coaster". (Sunday Express). "An uplifting, charming, life-affirming tale that you won't want to put down". (Heat). "Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best". (Marie Claire). Jojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time.Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You and top ten bestseller The Girl you Left Behind. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.