Delightful, tear-jerking love story despite grim subject

Me Before You

Louisa Clarke feels a failure. Always in her younger sister’s shadow, she helps her parents financially, and when the cafe she’s worked in for years closes its doors, she fears unemployment. As well she might. Soon the job centre, in despair, suggest she becomes a pole dancer. So becoming a carer to a quadriplegic is a last resort, not an aspiration.

After an awkward interview with her patient’s glacial mother, she meets her charge. Will Traynor, who was a whizz in the City, is now unkempt and surly. She wonders how she’ll stick the job for the allotted six months, until she overhears a conversation that changes her attitude utterly.