I can't say too much about Anita Shreve's The Last Time They Met
for risk of ruining the experience of reading it for yourself. I will say that having read quite a few Anita Shreve books now I think this one stands out as being pretty special.
for risk of ruining the experience of reading it for yourself. I will say that having read quite a few Anita Shreve books now I think this one stands out as being pretty special.The story starts with Linda Fallow and Thomas Janes meeting up at at writers' festival in Toronto and we learn that this is the first time the former lovers have met up in twenty-six years. The book also takes us to Kenya where they last met and back to Massachusetts where there love first started.
Throughout the book the passion between these two characters comes alive on the pages and reading the book I certainly felt goose-bumps at certain points from the highly charged story.
The final pages of the book bring an ending that I certainly didn't see coming at all and had me going back and rereading certain sections armed with the new knowledge that I now had. Even when I woke up the next morning I found myself again going back to the book to check things. It find it amazing that a book that have that sort of power – read it and you'll see what I mean.
Anita Shreve is one of my favourite authors and I loved that book. Your post has made me want to read it again!
I loved that book as well. Reading Anita Shreve definitely inspired my own work — people are comparing my novel, STANDING STILL (or SKYLIGHT, in the UK) to the Pilot’s Wife. (sorry for going all commercial on you!)
Happy reading
Kelly Simmons
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