Jojo Moyes

And I thought, I've got nothing to lose.

I'm going to switch to these people.

And then Richard and Judy picked up this book and the rest is history because it started a kind of snowball.

And I remember a friend saying to me that for about the first three years of actual big success, I looked like a rabbit in headlights.

Really?

I kept thinking, well, it's going to stop now.

Yes.

You couldn't trust it?

Absolutely not.

And it was about three years before I finally thought, oh, okay, so the next book sold okay.

And now the backlist, the books that I'd written before the other eight were starting to sell.

Oh, maybe this is okay.

And then Me Before You went around the world.

I think it's sold about 15 million copies so far.

And then the rest of them have sold another 45 on top of that.

So I went from selling a handful.

Like, I don't think I've made six figures.

to I think now it's in the region of 60 million.

And that all happened in my 40s and 50s.

I definitely when I pitched me before you, I remember pitching it to my hairdresser, lovely Frank.