The Last Romantics

By: Tara Conklin

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eBook | 5 February 2019

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One fateful summer. Four lives changed, forever.

'A modern epic ... The Last Romantics is a sweeping look at what binds families together' Glamour

We thought we'd always be there for each other.

We were wrong.

For the Skinners, their lives divide into two parts: before that heady summer - of unsupervised youth, family crisis and unavoidable tragedy - and after. But mainly after.

The events of that childhood summer bound the Skinner siblings together fiercely, but the consequences would never be erased.

After what happened, they thought they could never be pulled apart, but it's the million little betrayals echoing through the years that threaten to fray their last fragile ties . . .

Spanning five decades and following four unforgettable siblings, The Last Romantics is a sweeping, intimate and compelling portrait of one family - and every family. It is about the responsibilities we bear, how we grow together and apart, but how love will always guide us home.

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'A beautifully written story of four siblings' love for one another across their entire lives... Perfectly paced, affecting fiction' Booklist

'Clever' Publishers Weekly

'There's so much love and loss in this book that I read it with a box of tissues, laughing with astonishment through the tears. The kind of book you lose yourself in' Lisa Gabriele, author of The Winters

'All of the luxuriously spun characters in The Last Romantics, entwined via that impossible web we call family, unfold over their many years with the perfect balance of familiarity and wonder that makes turning their pages such a pleasure' Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is

'Intensely moving' Shanina Piyarali, Shelf Awareness

More praise for Tara Conklin:

'A wise, stirring and assured debut' Maria Semple, NYT bestselling author of Where'd You Go Bernadette

'Assured and arresting ... You cannot put it down' Chicago Tribune

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