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Laura Dave (born July 18, 1977) is an American novelist. Early life Dave was born in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her interest in writing began when she was in elementary school. Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she received a B.A. in English. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia's creative writing program. She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a recipient of the Tennessee Williams Scholarship. She received several awards for her writing including the AWP Intro Award in Short Fiction.Following graduate school, Dave worked as a freelance journalist for ESPN. Writing career Dave is the author of London Is The Best City In America (2006) and The Divorce Party (2008). Her most recent novel, The Last Thing He Told Me, was released in 2021 and became an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, remaining on the New York Times Best Seller list for 82 weeks. Dave's fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, The New York Observer, ESPN, Redbook, and The Huffington Post. She most often writes about relationships, family, infidelity, and marriage. She has appeared on CBS's The Early Show, Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends and NPR's All Things Considered. In 2008, Cosmopolitan named her a "Fun and Fearless Phenom of the Year". Personal life Dave is married to screenwriter Josh Singer. They reside in Los Angeles. Works Novels London Is The Best City In America (2006) ISBN 978-0-14-303850-4 The Divorce Party (2008) ISBN 978-0-14-311560-1 The First Husband (2011) ISBN 978-0-670-02267-0 Eight Hundred Grapes (2015) ISBN 978-1-4767-8925-5 Hello, Sunshine (2017) ISBN 978-1-4767-8932-3 The Last Thing He Told Me (2021) ISBN 978-1-5011-7134-5Film options In 2006, Universal Studios optioned the rights to London Is The Best City In America as a starring vehicle for Reese Witherspoon. In 2008, Universal Studios also optioned The Divorce Party in conjunction with Echo Films, Jennifer Aniston's production company. In 2020, Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine optioned The Last Thing He Told Me to be produced as a limited series on Apple TV+ starring Jennifer Garner. References External links Official website. Discover the Laura Dave popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Laura Dave books.

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  • Last One Alive synopsis, comments

    Last One Alive

    Amber Cowie

    A team of researchers exploring the myth of a witch find their numbers mysteriously dwindling in this irresistible psychological thriller for fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and L...

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    Summary of the last thing he told me by Laura Dave

    Justin Reese

    DISCLAIMERThis is NOT the original laura Thalassa's bookThis is a well detailed Summary of the last thing he told me by Laura DaveEntertainment Weekly describes The Last Thing He T...

  • Lucky synopsis, comments

    Lucky

    Marissa Stapley

    REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling rollercoaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts.What if you had the winning ticket th...

  • The Bucket List synopsis, comments

    The Bucket List

    Georgia Clark

    “Emotional, hilarious, and thoughtprovoking.” People “Witty, sexy.” Los Angeles Times #1 Cosmopolitan Best New Books of Summer PureWow Best Reads of Summer From the author of the...

  • The Key to Happily Ever After synopsis, comments

    The Key to Happily Ever After

    Tif Marcelo

    One of BuzzFeed’s “Books Coming Out This Summer That You Need to Seriously Read” One of Bustle’s “New Romance Novels to Make Your Spring Reading Even Dreamier Than You Imagined” A...

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    The Last Thing He Told Me Summary

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  • The Summer of Good Intentions synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Good Intentions

    Wendy Francis

    Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationand th...

  • On Her Own synopsis, comments

    On Her Own

    Lihi Lapid & Sondra Silverston

    A moving, pageturning story of two families in crisis that melds the clockticking tension of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me with the “issuedriven” gravity of Jennifer Haigh...

  • The Divorce Party synopsis, comments

    The Divorce Party

    Laura Dave

    "Sizzle Factor: SPF 50. A secret marriage, lies about affairs . . . even sex on the day of the divorce party" (USA Today) a novel by the author of the New York Times Bestseller ...

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    Mornings with Rosemary

    Libby Page

    The international bestselling debut about friendship and lovefeaturing the lifechanging relationship between an anxious young reporter and an eightysixyearold lifelong swimmer that...

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    Mall Goth

    Kate Leth

    Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this comingofage young adult graphic novel from acclaimed comic artist Kate Leth about a 2000s goth teen whose favorite par...

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    Bad Tourists

    Caro Carver

    Three tightknit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlifeuntil they realize the resort of their dre...

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    In a Book Club Far Away

    Tif Marcelo

    From the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming and moving novel following three Army wivesestranged friendswho must overcome their dif...

  • You Were Always Mine synopsis, comments

    You Were Always Mine

    Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

    The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and prov...

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    I Need You to Read This

    Jessa Maxwell

    The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author) The Golden Spoon returns with a sly and addictive new mystery about an advice ...

  • Eight Hundred Grapes synopsis, comments

    Eight Hundred Grapes

    Laura Dave

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME​Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle), and named a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Houseke...

  • The Strangers We Know synopsis, comments

    The Strangers We Know

    Pip Drysdale

    Imagine seeing your loving husband pop up on your best friend’s dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing that happens to you all week...When Charlie sees a man who is the spit...

  • None of This Is True synopsis, comments

    None of This Is True

    Lisa Jewell

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell retu...

  • Reputation synopsis, comments

    Reputation

    Sarah Vaughan

    “Astonishingly timely and clever, utterly gripping.” Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb.” Shari Lapena, New York Times bestse...

  • The First Husband synopsis, comments

    The First Husband

    Laura Dave

    "A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." PeopleA savvy, pageturning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the...

  • Have You Seen Her synopsis, comments

    Have You Seen Her

    Catherine McKenzie

    Named a Most Anticipated and Big Book of the Summer by Goodreads, Novel Suspects, and Book RiotA thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersec...

  • Greenwich Park synopsis, comments

    Greenwich Park

    Katherine Faulkner

    This “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) explores the anxieties of impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the hig...

  • Hello, Sunshine synopsis, comments

    Hello, Sunshine

    Laura Dave

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME​Best Books of Summer Selection by People, Elle, Redbook, Domino Magazine, Us Weekly, PopSugar, PureWow, I...

  • Goodbye, Paris synopsis, comments

    Goodbye, Paris

    Anstey Harris

    International Bestseller A Book of the Month Club PickThe Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have ...

  • West Coast Love synopsis, comments

    West Coast Love

    Tif Marcelo

    An aspiring food journalist and a grumpy cameraman take to the California coast for the biggest foodie event of the year in this sweet third novel in Tif Marcelo’s charming and rom...

  • East in Paradise synopsis, comments

    East in Paradise

    Tif Marcelo

    When an entrepreneur and an Army reservist end up in their own reality show fauxmance, they have to decide whether their love exists just for the cameras...or if it’s for real in t...

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    Please Join Us

    Catherine McKenzie

    Named one of 2022’s best and mostanticipated thrillers by Goodreads, CrimeReads, Motherly, Westport Magazine, and more!A “propulsive thriller about secret organizations, hidden age...

  • The Marsh Queen synopsis, comments

    The Marsh Queen

    Virginia Hartman

    For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces he...

  • Brandsplaining synopsis, comments

    Brandsplaining

    Jane Cunningham & Philippa Roberts

    'It's high time we expose and remedy the pseudofeminist marketing malarkey holding women back under the guise of empowerment' Amanda Montell, author of Wordslut­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­...

  • Lying Beside You synopsis, comments

    Lying Beside You

    Michael Robotham

    Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest “expertly paced and psychologically acute” (Kirkus Reviews) thriller that’s “one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put do...

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    Wish You Were Gone

    Kieran Scott

    A “captivating thriller full of twists and surprises” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) about what happens when the death of a husband and father isn’t the traged...

  • Zero Days synopsis, comments

    Zero Days

    Ruth Ware

    The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenalinefueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a wom...

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    Summary of The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

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  • The Sun Also Rises synopsis, comments

    The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway

    Jake Barnes is a man whose war wound has made him unable to have sexand the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Jake is an expatriate American journalist living in Paris, while...

  • Storm Child synopsis, comments

    Storm Child

    Michael Robotham

    Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest psychological thriller, which finally unlocks the secrets of Evie’s past and reaffirms why Stephen King has proclaimed this ...

  • Pack Up the Moon synopsis, comments

    Pack Up the Moon

    Anna McPartlin

    THERE'S A BIG LIFE AHEAD OF HER. CAN SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT? Emma is twentysix pretty, intelligent, and happily living with her childhood sweetheart John in a cute litt...

  • London Is the Best City in America synopsis, comments

    London Is the Best City in America

    Laura Dave

    A tender and quirky novel about the romantic choices we make from the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told MeEmmy Everett...

  • North to You synopsis, comments

    North to You

    Tif Marcelo

    In this heartwarming and charming debut from Tif Marcelo, a food truck chef and her long lost Army love clash when they cross paths in San Francisco.Camille Marino has got a full p...

  • The It Girl synopsis, comments

    The It Girl

    Ruth Ware

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spinetingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a...

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    The Last Thing He Told Me

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    Once Upon a Sunset

    Tif Marcelo

    The author of The Key to Happily Ever After“a true gem filled with heart, laughs, and a cast of delightful characters” (Nina Bocci, USA TODAY bestselling author)returns with a hear...

  • The Books That Changed My Life synopsis, comments

    The Books That Changed My Life

    Bethanne Patrick

    One hundred of today’s most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their heartsthat made them who they are today.Leading authors, p...

  • Financial Wellness and How to Find It synopsis, comments

    Financial Wellness and How to Find It

    Melanie Eusebe

    'Fascinating' Stylist magazine'A powerful reminder that we cannot discuss 'wellness' without also talking about the elephant in the room: money. This book isn't just about getting ...