Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.

Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London

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. She won a bursary financed by The Independent

The Independent

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newspaper to study journalism at City University, London and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist. Her published works in the UK include Sheltering Rain (2002), Foreign Fruit (2003) (published in the US as Windfallen (2003)), The Peacock Emporium (2004) (published in German as Suzanna's Coffee-Shop (2005)), The Ship of Brides (2005), Silver Bay (2007), Night Music (2008), The Horse Dancer (2009) and "The Last Letter From Your Lover" (2010).

She has won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year Award twice, in 2004 for Foreign Fruit and in 2011 for "The Last Letter From Your Lover"

She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.

External links

• Jojo Moyes official website
• Review of Silver Bay in The Times
  The Times
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• Biography and bibliography at Curtis Brown Literary Agency