[9] Before attending university, Moyes held several jobs: she was a typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind people, a brochure writer for Club 18-30, and a minicab controller for a brief time.
While an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes worked for the Egham and Staines News.
With one child, another baby on the way, and a career as a journalist, Moyes committed to herself that if her fourth book was rejected, she would stop her efforts.
She cites Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson as a book that made her want to be a better writer,[15] and she is inspired by authors such as Nora Ephron,[44] Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Tropper, and Jane Austen.
[5] Moyes lives on a farm in Great Sampford, Essex, with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.