The Last Letter from Your Lover
A Novel
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4.1 • 83 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan and Joe Alwyn
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, a sophisticated, page-turning double love story spanning forty years
It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply "B", asking her to leave her husband.
Years later, in 2003, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper's archives. She becomes obsessed by the story and hopeful that it can resurrect her faltering career. Perhaps if these lovers had a happy ending she will find one to her own complicated love life, too. Ellie's search will rewrite history and help her see the truth about her own modern romance.
A spellbinding, intoxicating love story with a knockout ending, The Last Letter from Your Lover will appeal to the readers who have made One Day and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society bestsellers.
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.
