Lila finds new romance, and Moyes has also found a new partner, who she knew many years ago, although she prefers to keep her personal life private.
“I have people who I absolutely love and would travel across the country to see, while a lot of other people I will just say no to, not because they’re not nice people, but because they are not in that kind of top-energy tier.
In the novel, the animosity and anger Lila feels towards her ex is palpable, but Moyes says she wasn’t channelling her own anger into the book.
It centres on Lila, a bestselling author whose career is in free-fall as she goes through divorce and continues to come to terms with the death of her mother and her husband’s departure into the arms of another school mum who is now pregnant with his child.
“I was really anxious about it because I’d lived in the country in a house that was literally in the middle of nowhere for 20-odd years, but I really wanted to be near my friend and my daughter and it was just time for a change.
