Jo Cox, Brendan Cox
Jo Cox, Brendan Cox
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Jo Cox
More in common

Author: Brendan Cox

Narrator: Heather Long, Luke Thompson

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 06/13/2017


Synopsis

'Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place' Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

A touching and very human portrait of Jo Cox: daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and activist.

'Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I and Jo's friends and family are going to work every moment of our lives to love and nurture our kids and to fight against the hate that killed Jo.
Jo believed in a better world and fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people.' - Brendan Cox, 16 June 2016

Jo Cox's murder in June 2016 shocked the world. In the aftermath of her tragic death her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death.

In this moving and impassioned portrait of Jo - as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and activist - we see how much she gave and much more she had to give.

A touching and very human portrait of an extraordinary woman, whose legacy will inspire others.

'Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full.'

(P)2017 John Murray Press

About Brendan Cox

Brendan Cox was Jo's husband and is dad to their two children. Brendan's royalties for this book will go to the Jo Cox Foundation.jocoxfoundation.org


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 31, 2018

I cried a lot in the middle seat on a plane listening to this audiobook. (I’m not an audiobook person but I get very motion sick and I can’t read on planes, so a few people suggested I try a nonfiction book narrated by the author. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any of the ones I was looking for, but......more

Goodreads review by Paula on June 20, 2017

How can you rate this book? You just can't, it would be wrong as it is just so full of love and sadness. What I will say is read it if you want to read about true love, the love of a mum for her kids, husband and wife for each other, of a woman passionate about making a difference in the world and f......more

Goodreads review by Diane on June 28, 2017

This has got to have been one of the hardest reads of my life. I found myself in floods of tears so many times while reading it and had to take it in stages - it was just too painful. To read the chapter "Cuillin's Song" just broke my heart; to read about the song Jo's five year son, Cuillin, wrote......more

Goodreads review by Callum on July 03, 2017

Powerful. Inspiring. Necessary. For those who don't know, Jo Cox was a humanitarian campaigner who worked with Oxfam for many years, and a member of the British parliament. In 2016, she was murdered by a white supremacist and Nazi sympathiser because of her international outlook, and her pro-Europe a......more

Goodreads review by Lil on November 18, 2018

Devastating, yet filled with hope. Beautifully written by a devoted husband and a great human being.......more


Quotes

The story of Jo's life runs through the book: her childhood growing up in West Yorkshire; winning a place at Cambridge; working for Oxfam where she met Brendan; winning the seat for Labour in 2015 in her childhood constituency which fulfilled a lifelong dream... Jo comes across as a thoroughly decent person who was on a mission to change what she saw as an unjust world... And it is all utterly heart-breaking because you know as you read the book that all of this happiness, drive and energy is going to come to a sudden, needless and irrevocable end... This is not an easy read. It is overwhelmingly sad at times and the chapters that deal with the immediate aftermath of Jo's death, where Brendan wrestles with how to tell his children what has happened, are almost unbearable... While Jo Cox: More In Common is raw, painful and shot through with grief, it is also brave, inspiring and full of love. Daily Express

A searingly honest and extremely moving book about Jo Cox, which gives us all a chance to get to know the woman behind the headlines and the shocking way she died. Jo comes across as a tiny ball of energy with a heart as big as a lion, a person who wanted to make a difference. Lorraine Kelly, Sun

This feels like an important book, and it shows that a beautiful book can be written in clear, plain style - there is beauty enough in its subject. The Guardian