The Last Love Note

The Last Love Note

Emma Grey

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. 

 

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Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she’s grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the balls—and yet clinging to her sense of humor.

 

Lurching from one comedic crisis to the next, she also navigates an overbearing mom and a Tinder-obsessed best friend who's determined to matchmake Kate with her hot new neighbor.

 

When an in-flight problem leaves Kate and her boss, Hugh, stranded for a weekend on the east coast of Australia, she finally has a chance, away from her son, to really process her grief and see what’s right in front of her. Can she let go of the love of her life and risk her heart a second time?

 

When it becomes clear that Hugh is hiding a secret, Kate turns to the trail of scribbled notes she once used to hold her life together. The first note captured her heart. Will the last note set it free?

 

The Last Love Note will make readers laugh, cry, and renew their faith in the resilience of the human heart—and in love itself.

The Last Love Note

Emma Grey

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“Funny, heart-breaking and life-affirming"
It is a romcom, even though there's darkness and sadness. It's a lovely, wonderful read, with an incredible resolve. I was unable to put it down."
"From the opening scene I knew this book would be amazing ...Put this on your absolutely-must-read list."
"At its core, The Last Love Note is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking. With vulnerability and honesty, Grey takes us through the entire spectrum of love. The novel is passionate and soulful, terrifying and devastating. The Last Love Note serves as a reminder that it really is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all."
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Meet the author

Emma Grey

Emma is a novelist, feature writer, photographer, professional speaker and accountability coach.
She has been writing fiction since she first fell for Anne of Green Gables at fourteen and is the author of the YA novels Unrequited: Boy band meets girl, Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess, the non-fiction title, I Don’t Have Time (co-authored with Audrey Thomas), and the parenting memoir Wits’ End Before Breakfast! Confessions of a Working Mum.
Along with her schoolfriend, dual ARIA-winning composer, Sally Whitwell, Emma co-wrote two musicals, Deadpan Anti-Fan and Fairytale Derail, based on her teen novels.
She wrote her first adult novel, The Last Love Note, in the wake of her husband’s death. It’s a fictional tribute to their love, an attempt to articulate the magnitude of her loss and a life-affirming commitment to hope.
Emma lives just outside Canberra, where her world centres on her two adult daughters, young son, loved step-children and step-grandchildren, writing, photography and endlessly chasing the Aurora Australis.

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What people are saying...

“Emma Grey weaves riotous romantic comedy through a journey from love to loss and back again with a raw honesty and intensity that is equalled only by her capacity to find humour and light in the darkest of moments.”

Nina Campbell

author of Daughters of Eve

“An exquisitely heartbreaking emotional love story, packed with light, tender touches. I will be recommending this to everyone.” - Paige Toon, author of Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Paige Toon

author of Only Love Can Hurt Like This

"Laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly affecting. Such a great book."

Lisa McLaughlin

owner of The Bookshelf, Irvine

“At its core, The Last Love Note is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking. With vulnerability and honesty, Grey takes us through the entire spectrum of love. The novel is passionate and soulful, terrifying and devastating. The Last Love Note serves as a reminder that it really is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.”

Bodhi Byles

Books & Publishing

"A moving portrait of love, loss and the messy emotions that live in between. And while Emma captures heart-wrenching scenes, the intimate prose is relatable, revealing and simply human. Yes, you will need tissues on hand - as well as a cuppa."

HerCanberra

“The Last Love Note is a romcom both sparkling and heartbreaking in equal measure - we're invited into the story of Kate, grieving single parent, finds herself stranded with her boss in a sleepy hamlet, with only a trail of scribbled love notes to hold a secret from her past - that he's hiding.”

Dymocks Books

“This book looks and sounds like a typical rom-com… But then it takes an unexpected left turn that elevates it to another level. To put it simply, this book was heartbreakingly beautiful and unexpectedly funny all at once and such a fantastic surprise. Grey does a fantastic job of telling a heartbreaking story with a blend of warmth and humour that is difficult to nail. Just be warned, you will laugh out loud and you will cry.”

Mercedes Maguire

Sydney Daily & Sunday Telegraphs

Why Zibby Loves It…

I am obsessed with this book. It has everything a book needs, in my opinion: humor, wit, something to overcome, friendships, unexpected endings, secrets, loyalties, a strong sense of voice and place, and excellent, excellent writing. I literally laughed out loud and cried. Both. I couldn’t put it down. Emma Grey is the next Helen Fielding, Sophie Kinsella or Jojo Moyes. Readers in Australia have already fallen in love with this book, posting, gushing, writing articles about it. The book has true staying power. It’s a vehicle for emotional recognition, entertainment, and escape, all mixed together. It’s just what I look for in a novel - and what makes me want to shout from the rooftops about a book. Emma is just witty. Her own loss of her husband informs the narrative, grief seeping in between the lines. You can almost tell how much writing it helped her, the author, as it helps us, the readers. The perfect contract. It is so, so, SO good and you will all love it. I’m honored to be publishing this fantastic work by a brilliant talent from all the way in Australia. It’s not where we live or our backgrounds that unites us; it’s the underlying feelings, on display here, waving like a flag.