Brendan Cox was Jo's husband and is dad to their two children.Brendan has spent his career tackling the effects of civil conflict. For the last eighteen months he has been working to combat growing xenophobia and intolerance across Europe.
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*
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