4.5 stars. 
 I grabbed this book at the airport before a long distance flight for a pretty stupid reason - the cover is so darn cute. I have read that JoJo Moyes herself liked the North American cover for 'Me before You' but I personally hated it, and I hate the NA cover for this title too. With the success of 'Me Before You' alone (and her great back catalogue too) Moyes has definitely proved herself as worthy of a read whatever the cover but it's just so ugly to me and gives no context or hint of Moyes amazing talent to turn an ordinary story into a heart-warming, turning my heart to mush tale. And this UK version is so pretty - it's simple but I absolutely love it. Those cute little glossy characters on the front had me sucked in and I had to have them....! 
 As with the other Moyes books I've read, this one is absorbing and page turning as you are quickly swept into the life of Jess - a working single mother struggling to make ends meet. Jess is working two jobs to provide for her family with the bills stacking up and no end in sight. If this sounds a little cliched I'm not doing it justice - Moyes gives a really good honest account of Jess and the UK working class lifestyle - it's gritty and sad, yet still funny and moving. The bulk of the book sees Jess and Ed, a businessman in trouble with the law for insider trading on a slow moving, long distance road trip to Scotland where Jessica's daughter is entering a maths competition in the hope of securing enough of a prize win to scrape together the fees to secure a promising scholarship. 
 While this doesn't have the heart breaking and moving narrative of Me Before You and definitely reads more like a very well put together piece of chick lit, it's still just so lovely - I adored the characters and the journey they took together, emotionally and literally. It's a love story but so much more.