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The Last Letter from your Lover

Moyes, Jojo (Book - 2011)
Average Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
The Last Letter from your Lover


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More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing her career.

Author: Moyes, Jojo
Title: The last letter from your lover
Publisher: Pamela Dorman BooksViking
Imprint: New York : - Pamela Dorman BooksViking
Pages: 390
Edition: 1st American ed
ISBN: 9780670022809, 0670022802
Language: English
Statement of responsibility: Jojo Moyes
Characteristics: 390 p. ;,24 cm.
Author (Original Script): Moyes, Jojo
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This was a great read. By the end I couldn't put it down. Very nice.

Feb 01, 2012
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  • Ker38 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

Should be a movie! It had me enthralled! I at first was disappointed with the change of writing style when it switched to the "present" but then admired her ability to do so, as she did capture the way things really are now (in terms of communication, etc). It had me gasping, sighing and remarking out loud "No, this can't happen!". This is not the norm for me. Well worth the read. So well written, you can visualize it and feel it.

Sep 06, 2011
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  • Junglequeen rated this: 3 stars out of 5.

Excellent book. Young married woman who thought her lover died in a car accident only to find out that her husband had been hiding the truth from her. She was suffering from a head injury and as a result, loss part of her memory. Story travelled back and forth in time, monthwise. Forty years later, a reporter with the London's Nation newspapers went out to find out about this unhappy affair. A very intriguing read!

Discover: A passionate page-turner that pays homage to the lost art of letter writing and the power of love. "London 1960: Jennifer Stirling wakes in a hospital to learn that she has survived a terrible car accident. She is the wife of a wealthy business magnate who provides Jennifer with a life some women only dream of. The problem is, Jennifer can't recall who she is or who she was--until she discovers a heartfelt love letter signed with the letter "B," asking her for forgiveness and to leave her husband. It proves to be just the jolt Jennifer's memory needs in reconstructing the past and a love affair she only half-remembers. JoJo Moyes (Sheltering Rain; The Peacock Emporium) structures this captivating romance in chapters named for the months surrounding the fateful accident in 1960, and weaves a tale that ultimately unravels in 2003. A modern-day journalist, Ellie, caught in a complicated love affair of her own, discovers love letters misfiled in a newspaper archive. Searching for meaning in her own life and a story that might save her career, she sets out to find and reunite the lovers immortalized on the page. But is it too late? At times, the shifts of chronology might make the reader feel as off-balance as Jennifer in does piecing together the facts that resulted in the accident and its tragic aftermath. But Moyes is an intelligent, engaging storyteller who lures the reader through the complexities of the narrative via dramatic twists and turns of missed opportunities, glitches that keep lovers apart and cliff-hangers that build up reader expectation only to deliver the unexpected." --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines

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