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Copyright © 2021 by Laura Dave
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dave, Laura, author.
Title: The last thing he told me : a novel / Laura Dave.
Description: First Simon & Shuster hardcover edition. | New York City : Simon & Schuster, 2021. | Summary: “When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband’s teenage daughter, who hates her”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020021203 | ISBN 9781501171345 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501171369 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS3604.A938 L37 2021 | DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020021203
ISBN 978-1-5011-7134-5
ISBN 978-1-5011-7136-9 (ebook)