The Last September, Nina de Gramont
The Last September, Nina de Gramont
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The Last September

Author: Nina de Gramont

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2015


Synopsis

The suspenseful tale of love and murder, by an acclaimed writer at the top of her game, offers a taut psychological mystery whose answers lie hidden until the final pages.

Brett had been in love with Charlie from the first day she laid eyes on him in college. When Charlie is brutally murdered, Brett is devastated. But, if she is honest with herself, their marriage had been hanging by a thread for some time, especially after Charlie had an affair. The recent reappearance in their lives of his unstable younger brother, Eli, further strained their relationship until Brett, ever steadfast in her devotion to Charlie, began to question her own commitment in the days leading up to his death. Though all clues point to Eli, who's been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years, any number of people might have been driven to slit the throat of Charlie Moss—the handsome, charismatic man who unwittingly damaged almost every life he touched.

Now, looking back on their lives together, Brett is determined to understand how such a tragedy could have happened—and whether she was somehow complicit. Set against the lush yet  desolate autumn beauty of Cape Cod, The Last September is a riveting emotional puzzle. Award-winning author Nina de Gramont takes readers inside the psyche of a woman facing down the meaning of love and loyalty in a mesmerizing novel that is as moving as it is unpredictable. 

About Nina de Gramont

Nina de Gramont is a professor of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is the author of THE LAST SEPTEMBER (Algonquin 2015) as well as several Young Adult novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale on March 13, 2017

I do wish publishers would be careful about the quotes and hype they put on books. This one is compared to The Girl on The Train, slated as 'a literary whodunit' and 'impossible to put down' among other things. None of those did the book any favours. It is a readable story about Brett who has been i......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on September 23, 2015

Brett, Eli, Charlie, and Ladd....all connected and all a part of each other's ​lives and decisions. THE LAST SEPTEMBER starts out in present day and heads back to the ​past when all four friends met and events began to unfold.​ Brett was the main character. We find out about her involvement in all thr......more

Goodreads review by Katy on July 12, 2015

I received an ARC of this novel through Goodreads First Reads giveaways This was a much quieter novel than I expected, and one that's a bit hard to classify. It begins with the murder of Charlie, Brett's husband and the father of their toddler, Sophie, but it's not a murder mystery or thriller. The m......more

Goodreads review by Ilyssa on June 09, 2015

Here's what I was confused about - was I supposed to like Brett? Because I really, really did not. Every step of the way she was self-absorbed, thoughtless with other people's feelings, and just generally annoying.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on August 08, 2017

This book was fantastic! It was a story of love, forgiveness, family, suspense, and mental illness. I was kept guessing until the very end. This author clearly loves animals (me, too) and has a great understanding of the impact of mental illness on families, which was beautifully portrayed with hear......more