The Last Letter from Your Lover
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair despite her own romantic entanglements with a married man. -Google Books.
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In 1960 London, society wife Jennifer Stirling wakes in a hospital after a car crash unable to remember her own life and finds a stash of love letters from a man she does not recognize. In 2003, journalist Ellie Haworth digs out one of those letters from a newspaper archive.
Yes. Netflix released a 2021 film adaptation directed by Augustine Frizzell and starring Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley. The film follows the dual-timeline structure of the novel.
Both novels are by Jojo Moyes and share her signature emotional romance style. The Last Letter from Your Lover (2010) predates Me Before You (2012). Each is a standalone.
The Last Letter from Your Lover was written by Jojo Moyes, published in 2010 by Penguin Publishing Group.
The Last Letter from Your Lover is 512 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Last Letter from Your Lover takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
The Last Letter from Your Lover is a standalone novel by Jojo Moyes, not part of a series.
The Last Letter from Your Lover is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.