Someone Else's Shoes

Jojo Moyes began her career as a journalist in 1993 and started publishing novels in 2002. She is known for her bestselling romance novels, for which she has received public acclaim and multiple awards. One of her most popular novels, Me Before You, has two sequels and was adapted into a movie in 2016, with Moyes as the screenwriter. Like the heroines of Someone Else’s Shoes, Moyes is a wife and mother who lives in the United Kingdom. Someone Else’s Shoes is Moyes’s 17th novel and follows her common theme of exploring serious social issues while utilizing humor and happy endings to resolve the plot. Although she is primarily known for her romance writing, Moyes also explores other genres and subgenres such as historical and domestic fiction, and she continues to publish journalistic pieces as well. While Someone Else’s Shoes does contain an element of romance, the novel addresses socially relevant topics that are designed to attract a much wider readership. As this novel was written after Moyes first rose to prominence as an author, Someone Else’s Shoes represents an experimental departure from the trend of her previous works, as it introduces new themes such as the various reactions that women have to the aging process, especially as public perception of a woman’s status and credibility shifts with her age.