“Maybe that’s not the only question we should be asking, my grandfather said. Maybe we should also think about whether we’d really want it to be different. We could think about whether she actually did us a favor in her own way…”

When a young girl turns up at  Hannah’s door with a note from her husband that reads “protect her” she doesn’t quite understand just how much her life is about to be turned upside down. All she knows is that the “her” that he is referring to is her stepdaughter, Bailey.

In ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’, Laura Dave takes us on a journey alongside Hannah and Bailey in discovering the truth about who their husband and father really is. There’s mystery, there’s suspense and there’s raw emotion inside. It’s a book about learning to trust and trying to find out who you really are.

I love how the chapters are short enough to make it a book that’s really easy to pick up and put down. I also love the way that flashbacks to the past are used to help uncover different pieces of information. I cannot recommend this book highly enough! 

I’ll leave you with this, my favourite quote from the whole book: “We forget all sorts of things that no one helps us remember,”