Sophie Honeywell has spent years wondering whether Thomas Gordon was the one who got away — the lovely, steady boyfriend whose heart she broke just before he meant to propose. So it comes as a shock when Thomas's late great-aunt Connie leaves Sophie her house on tiny Scribbly Gum Island, a place Sophie visited only once. Suddenly single-and-nearly-forty Sophie finds herself uprooted onto the island and back inside Thomas's sprawling, secretive family.
Scribbly Gum is famous for one thing: the Munro Baby mystery. Decades ago, two young sisters called on their neighbours and found the house abandoned, a kettle still warm and a newborn crying in her cot — the parents vanished, never to be seen again. The sisters took in the baby, named her Enigma, and turned the unsolved mystery into a thriving tourist business that has shaped the family ever since. But the version sold to visitors is not the whole truth, and Sophie's arrival begins to loosen secrets the family has guarded for generations.
The Last Anniversary is warm, funny, and quietly moving Liane Moriarty — a novel about love arriving late, the ache of new motherhood, and the stories families tell to survive. As Sophie settles into island life, the past she has wandered into proves far more tangled, and more tender, than the legend on the brochures.