A dazzling story about marriage forgiveness and chances not taken by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet Thomas Janes whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion This is no chance meeting Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier Their affair was disastrous for them both a turning point in their lives and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both THE LAST TIME THEY MET moves backward in time from Linda at age to explore her life years earlier at age and still earlier at Anita Shreve examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice even a single word can have over the course of a lifetime.
