An Audience with Jojo Moyes

Presented in association with Frinton Summer Theatre to celebrate the National Year of Reading 2026

Every ticket sold includes both a charity donation to The Reading Agency and a copy of We All Live Here or Someone Else’s Shoes. 

A long-awaited return to Frinton for Jojo Moyes, the novelist and screenwriter whose books have now sold 60 million copies worldwide.  Beloved for her signature warmth and wicked sense of humour, she will talk about her latest bestseller, We All Live Here, a moving exploration of family, love and starting again, as well as the global page and screen sensation, Me Before You, its sequels After You and Still Me, and insight into the writing life behind such hits as The One Plus One, The Giver of Stars and Someone Else's Shoes. 

This very special event will also support adult literacy outreach work of The Reading Agency in National Year of Reading 2026. Jojo has been associated with its adult literacy scheme Quick Reads for over ten years and personally provided funding to prevent it from collapse.

We All Live Here dives into the joyful chaos of the Kennedy household. Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A recently broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Not to mention a once promising writing career that is now in freefall. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep wanting to make amends, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, friendship, and what it actually means to be family. It has been called ‘The best book she has ever written . . . mature, compassionate, wise’ by Marian Keyes and ‘as wise, funny and glorious as ever’ by Lisa Jewell.  

Jojo was for over two decades a resident of Essex. Her novels have been translated into forty-six languages and have hit the number one spot in twelve countries. In 2023, she joined BBC Maestro’s online platform of world-class experts with her course, Writing Love Stories, which is available now.  

‘A global phenomenon’ - Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs

 ‘Jojo never disappoints’ - Good Housekeeping