My husband says he’s got a second profession for when the writing goes down. “We bought the little version of the Blue Bottle machine, and one of the baristas we’re friends with showed us how to work it. The book became an instant 1 New York Times Bestseller and spent 65 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. 4.0 out of 5 stars The Last Thing He Told Me. I wanted to read this book because I saw the Apple TV mini series getting ready to premier, and I wanted to read the book before watching the series.

“We both realized how much money we were spending on coffee,” Dave says. The Last Thing He Told Me is a mystery-thriller novel by Laura Dave, published by Simon & Schuster. After my last Reese’s Book Club choice was kind of a dud, this book was a much needed palette cleanser. The Santa Monica-based pair used to write at separate coffee shops every day. I started thinking of a woman who found herself newly married to someone that the world is telling her is so paradoxical to her understanding of who her partner is.”ĭave and Singer have no such paradoxes living and working together, though space has become an issue in the global pandemic. He’s not guilty.’ I had no idea if she believed that or not. I saw an interview back then with Linda Lay, the wife of Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, in which she said, ‘My husband’s done nothing wrong. “I was consumed with the Enron trial, the hubris behind the people that allowed that to happen. The idea came to Dave in 2003, but she only started writing in 2012. Gaining mutual trust and respect with his young girl seems the only key to revealing the truth. One development between 2012 and now was the birth of Dave’s child, five. Embedded with her husband and a chilly stepdaughter, the protagonist is thrown by his disappearance. A Reese’s Book Club pick, The Last Thing He Told Me is fast-paced (I never want to bore) but heartfelt.

“The Last Thing He Told Me” follows a newly married, fiercely independent New Yorker swept away to Sausalito, Calif. Dave is adapting her novel with the help of her Oscar-winning husband, the screenwriter Josh Singer (“Spotlight”).

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