The Last Anniversary
- Author: Liane Moriarty
Summary
Sophie Honeywell inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island from her ex-boyfriend’s aunt, Connie, a decision that shakes up the island’s eccentric community. The island is famous for the “Munro Baby Mystery,” a decades-old legend about a couple who vanished, leaving behind their baby, who was raised by sisters Connie and Rose. The mystery has long been a tourist attraction, but Connie’s death and the inheritance create tension among the family members living there.
As Sophie navigates her new life and a potential romance, the narrative weaves together the secrets and personal crises of the island’s residents, including a mother struggling with postpartum depression and the hidden truth behind the Munro mystery itself. As the family prepares for a final public anniversary event, long-held secrets come to the surface, forcing the characters to confront their pasts and redefine their future.
Highlights
- Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (Location 1787)
- It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died. (Location 1812)
- A woman wants to be adored but she doesn’t want reverence. Thomas was trying too hard. He had the strained expression of a man who is under-qualified for his job. He laughed too loudly at her jokes and sat too close to her. Sweet, serious, worried Thomas; he needed a woman who made him feel like a man and Sophie needed a man who could give her a run for her money. He was just plain too wimpy for her. (Location 2086)
- Beautiful people probably suffer from terrible discrimination just like other minority (Location 2475)