Jojo Moyes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Everybody had a big horizon.
Everyone I was mixing with didn't leave their own postcode.
It was just very small lives.
And I think my parents slightly despaired of me at that point because I had rejected everything to do with their lives, art, culture.
I was working in a pub.
I didn't care.
I was engaged way too early.
I think because he had a huge family and I wanted to be part of a big family.
It was the Waltons thing, you know, just like, yeah.
Oh my God, I wanted to be in the Waltons.
Yes, I just wanted to be embedded somewhere.
And so I, yeah, ended my engagement.
Didn't go down terribly well, understandably.
And then I got a place at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
Honestly, I hadn't thought about what I wanted to do.
I just liked the building.
It was really pretty.
It looked a bit like Oxford.
I never made strategic choices.
Wow.