Someone Else’s Shoes

By: Jojo Moyes

Narrated by: Daisy Ridley

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is a novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?

Meet Sam...

She's not got much, but she's grateful for what she has: a job she's just about clinging on to and a family who depend on her for everything. She knows she's one bad day away from losing it all - and just hopes today isn't it...

Meet Nisha...

She's got everything she always dreamed of - and more: a phenomenally rich husband; an international lifestyle; and...she's just been locked out of all of it after her husband initiates divorce proceedings...

Sam and Nisha should never have crossed paths. But after a bag mix-up at the gym, their lives become intertwined - even as they spiral out of control.

Each blames the other as they feel increasingly invisible, forgotten, lost - and desperately alone.

But they're not.

No woman is an island. Look around. Family. Friends. Strangers.

Even the woman you believe just ruined your life might turn out to be your best friend.

Because together you can do anything - like take back what is yours...

©2023 Jojo Moyes (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

Do shoes make the woman... or does the woman make the shoes? Jojo Moyes' new novel is a delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women who seem polar opposites - until circumstance forces them to experience each other's lives. Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does - recognizably real and complex and funny and flawed - which is what makes her novels an auto-buy for me (Jodi Picoult, #1 NYT bestselling author)

Someone Elses Shoes is SO MUCH FUN. Beautiful about female friendship and brilliant on being a woman of a certain age who won't take any more sh*te! (MARIAN KEYES)

Perfect

At around chapter 3 I could have left a review about how good this book is. it's Sunday, 1.30am, I have to go to work soon, yet I'm up listening till the end as I just can't tear myself away. it's a great, easy to follow story, with great characters and a slight twist. one of those stories you can picture everything in your head.

excellent read 📚

The most entertaining and thought provoking book I have read in a long time !

Absolutely loved it

Great story line. Reader was really good. It had me gripped. Loved the way the women who were strangers from every walk of life got it all together.

All engrossing

I so enjoyed this story with its many twists and turns. Entirely unpredictable. A wonderful story and a Brilliant performance. I couldn’t put it down and it was finished all too quickly.

JoJo has done it again

Who could imagine what might happen when two ladies mix up their bags at the gym? They have to literally walk in each others shoes! A story of misunderstanding, friendship and a little romance with highs and lows which kept me listening breathlessly until the very end.