About the book: 2022 / Book of the Year Goodreads Choice Awards. The novel has been translated into 40 languages. Ideal for fans of the series “Big Little Lies”, “Play Back” ", "Little Fires Everywhere." Laura Dave is the author of several national and international bestselling books that have received critical and prestigious acclaim. Her books have been published in eighteen countries, and five novels have been adapted into films and TV series. The novel “The Last Thing He Told Me” was no exception. An Apple TV+ adaptation is being prepared. Starring Jennifer Garner and Angourie Rice. Laura Dave's novel The Last Thing He Told Me became an instant bestseller and remained on the NewYorkTimes bestseller list for more than six months. She thought she had it all: the perfect home, the perfect husband, the perfect marriage. But in reality, only a lie was ideal. He was an ideal husband until he disappeared... On the day when the feds suddenly come to search the software company, chief programmer Owen Michaels disappears. Six hundred thousand dollars and a note “Protect her!” - that's all that Hannah, Owen's new wife, and Bailey, his sullen teenage daughter from his first marriage, find. Hannah starts her own investigation, as a result of which she learns that ten years ago Owen changed his name to escape mortal danger. Gradually, Hannah and Bailey establish a relationship that did not work out for them from the very beginning, because only the two of them will be able to find out who the ideal husband and father really was. “The ideal book that makes you turn one page after another.” – REESE WITHERSPOON “Light and bright, despite the action.” – VOGUE