The Last Time They Met

Anita Shreve · first published 2001 · ISBN 9780316781268

Linda returns to a train in Maine where, forty years earlier, she had met Thomas, the man who changed her life and taught her what it means to love. Now, at the end of their lives, they finally talk about what happened to them and why they have carried this relationship like a secret. The narrative moves backward through their lives, revealing how two ordinary people became bound to each other and marked by it forever.