The Last Romantics

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The perfect read for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and We Were Liars.

A modern epic A sweeping look at what binds families together Glamour
One fateful summer.
Four lives changed, forever.

For the Skinners, their lives divide into two parts: before that heady summer of unsupervised youth and tragedy and after. But mainly after.

The events of that childhood summer bound the siblings together fiercely, but the consequences would never be erased. For its the million little betrayals echoing through the years that threaten to fray their last fragile ties . . .

Spanning five decades, The Last Romantics is a sweeping, compelling portrait of one family and every family. It is about betrayal, the responsibilities we bear, and how we can lose and sometimes rescue the ones we love.

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A beautifully written story of four siblings' love for one another across their entire lives Perfectly paced, affecting fiction Booklist

Clever Publishers Weekly

Theres so much love and loss in this book that I read it with a box of tissues, laughing with astonishment through the tears. The kind of book you lose yourself in Lisa Gabriele, author of The Winters

All of the luxuriously spun characters in The Last Romantics, entwined via that impossible web we call family, unfold over their many years with the perfect balance of familiarity and wonder that makes turning their pages such a pleasure Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is

Intensely moving Shanina Piyarali, Shelf Awareness

More praise for Tara Conklin:

A wise, stirring and assured debut Maria Semple, NYT bestselling author of Whered You Go Bernadette

Assured and arresting You cannot put it down Chicago Tribune

Author Bio

Tara Conklin has worked as a litigator in the New York and London offices of a major corporate law firm but now devotes her time to writing fiction. She received a BA in history from Yale University, a JD from New York University School of Law, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe. Born in St. Croix, she grew up in Massachusetts and now lives with her family in Seattle, Washington.