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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2021 by Laura Dave

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2021

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Jacket design by Pete Garceau

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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)