The Last Letter from Your Lover
Now a major motion picture starring Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley
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4.4 • 113 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE AVAILABLE ON DVD**
Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, Still Me and the new bestseller The Giver of Stars.
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When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man.
In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything - her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.
Ellie and Jennifer's stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel - interspersed with real 'last letters'.
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'Fabulous, emotional and evocative' - Sophie Kinsella
'Totally un-put-downable' - Stylist
'Top-class' - Woman & Home
'Epic, romantic and utterly brilliant' - Lisa Jewell
'Incredibly moving' - Marie Claire
'Jojo Moyes is a brilliant writer' - India Knight
'Just perfect' - Jenny Colgan
'Beautifully written . . . an exquisite tale of love lost, love found and the power of letter writing.' - Sunday Express
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A Jojo Moyes romance is always a cause for celebration—well, a wistful, sometimes kind of weepy form of celebration. In 1960, Jennifer is slowly returning to her comfortable life after suffering a near-total bout of amnesia following a car crash. Then, a forgotten love letter rocks everything she thought she knew about her previous life. Four decades later, struggling journalist Ellie runs across the same letter—and in piecing together Jennifer’s affair with dashing but troubled foreign correspondent Anthony, she runs into parallels with her own painful romantic life. This dual timeline flows beautifully: mixing evocative historical details about suburbia in the era before women’s liberation with the deep emotion that underpins Jennifer and Anthony’s aching love letters. Whether you identify more with historical housewife Jennifer or modern career woman Ellie, The Last Letter from Your Lover will make you root for both of them.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Elegiac yet emotionally ablaze, what could have been merely another love story is instead a graceful examination of grand events. In 1960s England, 27-year-old Jennifer Stirling awakens in the hospital after a terrible accident, suffering acute memory loss. As the past makes its too-slow return, Jennifer employs the skillful deception of an actress in order to cope, but soon realizes that she doesn't love her husband, a man of great wealth from mining operations in the Congo. Stumbling across a haunting love letter sent to her by a man identified only as "B," Jennifer tries to reconcile what is clearly a great passion with the crippling social mores of her day and class. As she examines her heart and mind, the story skips from London to the French Riviera and the Congo in the midst of an anticolonial war. In 2003, English journalist Ellie Haworth stumbles across one of B's letters to Jennifer while researching a story, dragging her into ancient passions and sparking her to examine her own heart. With poetic prose and affecting characters, Moyes's (Night Music) genuinely captivating tale resonates deeply in today's fast-paced, less gracious world.
