The Last Time They Met

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When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode...Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve's new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last pages. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, THE LAST TIME THEY MET is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived.

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'A luminous combination of stylistic simplicity and emotional complexity, revealing her to be a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' THE TIMES; 'A love story, pure and simple, told with exquisite delicacy ... a powerful story, a compulsive read' DAILY EXPRESS; 'Beautifully written, this is a fascinating insight on love, loss and forgiveness' SUNDAY MIRROR

Author Bio

Anita Shreve is the author of eleven bestselling novels all published by Little, Brown and Abacus.