The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
This author is becoming a favorite. Everything I have read by her has been wonderful, and this was no different. I will say that it felt a little slow to start, but that may have just been me and my ongoing reading slump.
Two-thirds of this book is about Jennifer, a wealthy, British housewife who meets and falls in love with a reporter named Anthony. At the beginning of the book, Jennifer has been in an automobile accident and has lost some of her memories, including her memories of Anthony. Her husband, Laurence, just hopes she forgets him entirely, but then she finds a letter from her lover. And another, and another. Once she is finally able to piece together who he is, she is told that he is dead, but that is because Laurence is an ass and wants her to stay with him.
Jennifer finally learns that Anthony didn't die, and finds him four years later. They have an amazing afternoon together, when Anthony asks her to leave her husband, but because she has a child, she doesn't feel like she can. Anthony takes off for the Congo, and Jennifer leaves her husband to try to track Anthony down. She never finds him.
The letters Anthony wrote to Jennifer after her accident are somehow left in a file in the newspaper offices. In 2003, some forty years afterward, Ellie finds them and looks to find who they belong to. Ellie, as it turns out, is the other woman. Her boyfriend is cheating on his wife with her, so these letters ring home to her in some way. She does everything she can to piece everything together.
This was a sweet read, and one I needed right now.
