' in the world it was whatever in the world it was developed, who ever again it, what else would they want? they need to know that they have a community around them. supporting, and caring. being practical, and kind. while doctors look at the big picture, and we can all be a part of the human size picture. seamus heaney‘s last words were, do not be afraid. i am not afraid. i am fearful that this new and important approach may be put into the "too difficult" box.

but i also have such great hope, so many cancer patients collaborate and support each other every day, they create that community of love and determination. that they find each other every day. all we now ask is that doctors and health systems learn to do with the same. and for us learn to do with the same. and for us to work together. to learn from each other. in the end, what gives a life meaning is not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close. i hope that this debate will give hope to other cancer patients, like me, so that we can live well together with cancer. notjust dying of it.

all of us for longer. thank you. applause. emotional scenes there in the house of lords this afternoon. the headlines on bbc news: a sharp rise in serious violent crime and sex offences — knife crimes rise by more than 20%. president trump tells theresa may he loves britain and expects a ‘tremendous' increase in trade between america and the uk. but back home more trouble in the conservative party over brexit — the chancellor says he wants modest changes after we leave the eu and downing street contradicts him. now it's time for meet the author.

there is something about louisa clarke, lou, that has turned the novels ofjojo clarke, lou, that has turned the novels of jojo moyes clarke, lou, that has turned the novels ofjojo moyes into international bestsellers. she's a heroine whose life appeals to readers who do not want to let her go. now after me before you and after you, kums still me, go. now after me before you and afteryou, kums still me, in go. now after me before you and after you, kums still me, in which lou fetches up in new york in a different worlds, as personal assistant to a socialite whose rich family holds out a few secrets. what will happen to lou's old boyfriend, paramedic sam, when she meets and falls for an american who bears a spooky resemblance to an old flame she knew before sam? if you are a

reader who follows blue, you will wa nt to reader who follows blue, you will want to know. welcome. what do you think it is about lou that makes us such a compelling character for your readers?” that makes us such a compelling character for your readers? i think she's every woman, the fact she is on the surface such an ordinary person makes a very easy for a wide variety of people to identify with, but she also has an inherent goodness. not necessarily a niceness, because she can be sharp. but there is no us narked to her and in an age of snarkiness, people find that refreshing. in this book she is transported to a newjob in new york, and she finds herself in a

family, a slightly weird family, of course, because that's what stories are made of, and she is thrown into the social world of very rich new york life. of course, it squarely com pletely york life. of course, it squarely completely beyond her experience. pa rt completely beyond her experience. part of the joy of having a character you can revisit is to put them in an alien landscape. there's not much more alien than the fifth ave social world. something ifound interesting about louisa's position is that when you enter the world of the very rich or the super—rich, they are people who have become accustomed to having people living around them, they are observed at all times yet they have to live as if they are not. there is that inherent tension between the people who are serving them and the people who are serving them and the people who are serving them and the people who are living, that i find really interesting. without going into details, i don't want to spoil the plot for those who will enjoy reading the book, but it all comes unstuck for her in a pretty to refine way. it's sort of put back

together again which fulfils your reassuring criteria, but i like the description of the everywoman, because you do sense that this is somebody who is going through something we can all imagine. we can feel what it's like for her. exactly, when i might louisa i try to really put the reader into her shoes. you feel things as she feels them, it's almost like, i don't know, inhabiting somebody‘s skin in that's quite different if you are writing in third person. ifound it very easy to pull people along with louisa. we are inside louisa, lou, her love life is a bit of a mess in this situation, in new york. sam on the paramedic, who is her man back in london, he turns up. that's all very nice but she has an encounter with someone who reminds of another man. i don't think it's too much of a spoiler to sayjosh reminds her of will, but when i speak to people you

have lost someone, they see them everywhere. that can be quite discombobulated, because i think you don'tjust discombobulated, because i think you don't just see them discombobulated, because i think you don'tjust see them in the street, you project onto them, and i think thatis you project onto them, and i think that is something that happens a bit in this book. do you ever find yourself getting a bit fed up of her? this is the third outing, clearly she's very successful so you are fond of her in that sense, but do you everything, oh, i must think of something else for her to do? that's it, this is the third book, from the day i was writing but two i saw it as a trilogy, a horseshoe shaped trilogy. so that is it. i actually felt really sad to let her go because you know what it's like, some characters come to life immediately, others you can write offa immediately, others you can write off a book and still not be entirely sure who they are and that can be really frustrating because they don't lift off the page in the right way. with lou, as with well in the first book, they landed fully formed in my lap. i knew what their

responses would be in any situation and that made it an easy thing to write. it's a great gift for an author to have that sense of the character, fully formed. how did that come about? what was it about her that allowed you to have that clear idea of how she would respond to any challenge? it was quite bizarre, i sometimes have scenes into my head and it was the scene in the first book where they are dancing at a wedding and she is sitting on his lap, a man in a motorised wheelchair, she slow dances with him at a wedding to the appalled fascination of the other guests, and he says to her, because she's sort of year, you would have never let those breasts so close to me ifi never let those breasts so close to me if i hadn't been in a wheelchair, and you said you would not have noticed my breasts if you were not ina noticed my breasts if you were not in a wheelchair. and in that moment i knew who they both were and how well they understood each other. it's interesting that you describe that seem almost in filmic terms. are you one of those writers who almost imagines in a way that you

are behind a camera, which is moving and picking up scenes? absolutely. i had to play a seen through filmic lee in my head to see if it will work. i lie on the floor of my office and run through lots of different varieties. there are writers who, and is quite difficult to understand this, but you don't see it in that way, don't see it like a stage with people walking in and off and the camera moving. but they have some sort of different mental process. it's quite a difficult thing to grasp. i'm always fascinated by how other writers do it because you just never know. i don't understand writers who don't plot, i can't imagine the fear of stepping off into the unknown and not knowing roughly way your characters will land. some writers say they are terrified by the idea of having it all written out, with the ark of the story or whatever, cliche we choose to apply. they must set off on the white ocean and see where the boat ends up. you can't do

that? i have a rough idea. four times out of five, it will deviate quite significantly. you will invent things as you go. characters run away with the plot and all the rest, but i have to have a rough idea of theme if nothing else. my constant question to myself is, what is the story really about? i'm sure if there were a group of readers here, they would say to you, if they were keen on the books and had enjoyed them, they would say, why are you taking her away and they would ask you the inevitable question authors are doomed to answer, what happens to her afterwards? i quite like the idea that that might be in the reader ‘s imagination. me before you was an odd book because it was peculiarly open ended, we ended up with her walking away in a street in paris, andi with her walking away in a street in paris, and i found with her walking away in a street in paris, and ifound i kept asking myself the question, what would happen to you after being part of such a catastrophic life changing event? such a catastrophic life changing eve nt ? if such a catastrophic life changing event? if you were part of somebody ending their life, you could not

walk away from that with a bouncing off stride. even if you thought you we re off stride. even if you thought you were 0k, it would come back with a terrible kind of profound resonance in your life. the question, that was really the question. what happens next? but i feel like she's done now. i don't want people to think i'm flogging a stripey legged dead horse, so i might revisit her in a short story one day. our! but as novels go, that's it. readers are free to imagine she lives more or less happily ever after. free to imagine she lives more or less happily ever afterlj free to imagine she lives more or less happily ever after. i think they will have to read the book and they will have to read the book and the side. jojo moyes, author of still me, thank you very much. tomorrow should be a dry day. before

we get there, let's look at the showers today, they have moved east but at the same time weakens. showers easing in northern ireland. skies tending to clear. those showers moving over the irish sea and into wales. they will become fewer and lighter, but we are left with a residue of cloud across most of england and wales. should not get too cold. a different story for scotla nd too cold. a different story for scotland and northern ireland, likely frost. maybe fog as well. scotla nd likely frost. maybe fog as well. scotland will see the lowest temperatures overnight and first thing tomorrow morning, more across northern ireland we may have some fog around for the first half of the day. into england and wales, cloud breaking at the end of the night to allow those temperatures to get close to freezing in the north—west, perhaps on to west wales as well. the midlands and the east, a cloudy start. a new light showers. then more sunshine coming into england and wales and the south—west. most

places have a dry day, decent sunshine but a bit more of a struggle across the east midlands, east anglia and the south—east, that clu b relu cta nt to east anglia and the south—east, that club reluctant to break. should do eventually, and by then we will see more cloud probably arriving in northern ireland. temperatures a degree or two lower than today but with light winds and sunshine, should not feel too bad. rain the north—west gets ambushed by this developing area of low pressure, most of the rain as we head into saturday will be coming in across the uk, could be quite heavy rain for a while across the western hills. the rain should ease off of it in the afternoon, may get some sunshine in scotland away from the showers but will pick up stronger winds as well. we are drawing in some mild airoff winds as well. we are drawing in some mild air off the atlantic so while there will be more cloud around, temperatures will be higher than on friday. mild air will start to push further in across the uk during the second half of the weekend, this is really mild air, if you do get some tragedy east of high

ground, temperatures could be 14 or 15. windy weather to begin in the far north—east of scotland, rain elsewhere, perhaps over western hills. a generally cloudy day, mild, temperatures 12 to 13 degrees. potentially higher with sunshine. it will be windy this weekend but mild, next week it starts to turn a bit chilly. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump has arrived at the world economic forum in davos, where he'll be pushing his america first message. the us said they'd keep their troops in syria to make sure the so—called islamic state don't come back. the syrian foreign minister tells us they're not happy with the idea. long—term presence of the american troops on syrian soil will be considered as an aggression against the sovereignty of syria. "lacking moral leadership": harsh words to describe myanmar‘s leader aung san suu kyi. but that's what one us diplomat did. we find out why.

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