Lou attempts to fix the pictures for Will, but he yells at her for trying to help. They awkwardly tell Will that they are getting married after bonding in the wake of Will’s accident, and Will smashes all the pictures of his old life. Two weeks into this jo, Will’s ex-girlfriend, Alicia, and former best friend, Rupert visit. Lou keeps at it because her family needs the money even more now that Treena wants to go back to school. Will sometimes chats with the nurse, Nathan, who handles his physical needs, but never speaks to Lou.
Lou does her best at work, making tea and doing small domestic chores as Will ignores her and sulks in his room. Will is completely dismissive at first, angry that his mother has hired yet another caretaker he does not want. Lou then meets the man she will be caring for, Will Traynor. Camilla intimidates Lou, but somehow decides that Lou is the right person for the job of providing a friendly cheerful presence for her son. Louisa has no experience as a caretaker, but goes to meet Camilla Traynor for an interview. Finally, the only job left is a six-month stint as a caretaker for a quadriplegic man. Lou goes to the job center to find a new position, but hates most of the entry level experiences. Patrick simply tells Lou to buck up and find another job. Lou goes to tell the news to her long-term boyfriend, Patrick, who is busy running laps as he trains for another triathlon. Louisa knows that her family sorely needs the money, with her mother Josie stuck at home caring for Lou’s Granddad, a stroke victim, and Lou’s nephew Thomas, the son of Lou’s younger sister Treena. Louisa is walking home dejected after hearing that the Buttered Bun café where she has worked for six years has to close.
The book then moves forward to 2009, introducing Louisa Clark, a 26-year-old woman with outlandish fashion sense living in the tiny village of Bishop’s Stortford in Essex, England. When Will steps into the road to hail a cab, he is hit by another cyclist and left unconscious. Will decides not to take his motorbike, a thrill that he normally loves, because it is raining hard. The book opens in 2007 as Will Traynor is leaving his girlfriend, Alicia, in bed and heading out the door for his job as a high-powered financier.
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