The Last Anniversary
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The Last Anniversary
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Narrated by:
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Caroline Lee
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By:
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Liane Moriarty
About this listen
I'll tell you something, something important. Love is a decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other. No offence, dear.
So decrees the formidable Connie Thrum of Scribbly Gum Island. She is the chief decision-maker of a rather unconventional family and her word is law. It's been over 70 years since Connie and her sister Rose visited their neighbours and found the kettle boiling and a baby waking for her feed, but no sign of her parents. The 'Munro Baby Mystery' still hasn't been solved and tourists can visit the abandoned home, exactly as it was found in 1932.
But now Connie has passed away and the island residents ponder her legacy. Sophie Honeywell is looking down the barrel of her 40th birthday and still hoping for that fairytale ending. Her beautiful new friend Grace, the Munro Baby's grand daughter, can't tell anyone what she hopes for. It would be too shocking.
Meanwhile, a frumpy housewife makes a pact with a stranger, an old lady starts making her own decisions and a family secret finally explodes on an extraordinary night of mulled wine, fire-eating, and face-painting - The Last Anniversary.
©2005 Liane Moriarty 2005 (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
Very good narrator
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I did not feel this was as focused as Alice - at times I wondered what Sophie was doing in the plot - but I trembled in fear for Grace, cheered on Margie (not sure of her spelling!), and appreciated Connie’s boldness and business acumen, a way from poverty to wealth from a tiny beginning with a few scones, which had also brought the sisters the blessings of further generations of children and young people in their lives.
Liane Moriarty writes from the inside of her characters. She makes them complete, rounded characters that you can identify with and sympathise with. Veronica was a treat and it was great to see her stop feeling aggrieved and finding her own path. Enigma was a pet, used to the centre of attention as the Munro baby and revelling in the fame of that. And I absolutely loved Rose - she makes it so easy to understand how the whole Munro baby mystery came about then, just when you think you know it all, delivers her final bombshell! I love that woman!
A long, satisfying listen.
Gripping
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such a good book
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Loved the unexpected wee twists at the end
Fab!
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What did you like best about The Last Anniversary? What did you like least?
I quite liked how certain characters stories developed, especially the insight into post natal depression. It seems like part of the overall plot was to include all different types of love and relationships but by doing that it just made a lot of the storylines seem irrelevant and disappointing when they didn't really have a conclusion.Would you recommend The Last Anniversary to your friends? Why or why not?
Probably not. It was a light read, not quite enough substance for me to tell my friends....you have to read this!What three words best describe Caroline Lee’s voice?
enthusiastic, entertaining, clearDid The Last Anniversary inspire you to do anything?
noNot sure about this one
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Excellent listen
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So well read an excellent story
My favorite
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I found it too cute for my taste and it lacked the bite of her previous novels. In the last two hours book I came to the realisation that I really didn't like the characters and was not bothered by their outcome.
The narration by Caroline Lee was, as always, spot on.
My favourite Moriarty books so far are The Husbands Secret and Big Little Lies.
Not my favourite
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The storyline was very far-fetched and the humour, the eccentricities and supposed endearing qualities of the characters became laboured and ridiculous. It was so incredibly slow and drawn out that I nearly gave up.
It will be a relief not to have to hear references to “scribbly gum island” or “the anniversary” again. By the end it was all really grating.
Became daft and tedious
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The next one. Love audio
Fabulous
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