“The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks debuted as # 1 this week in the Fiction Top Ten list on both the USA Today and the New York Times. It is both a love story and a-coming-of age novel.
This is Spark’s ninth No.1 best-seller and is based on a movie script the author wrote as a star vehicle for teen queen Miley Cyrus. She chose the name, “Ronnie,” for the main character.
The story centers on seventeen year old, Veronica “Ronnie” Miller. Her life turns upside-down when her parents get divorced and her father moves from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, Ronnie remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father…until her mother decides it would be in everyones best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms- first love and the love between parents and children, that demonstrate, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts…and heal them, as well.
This is the longest novel that Nicholas has written and well worth it. The movie version comes to theaters this April.
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