The Last Thing She Told Me
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Book Club Questions
1. Why do you think Betty mentioned the babies to Nicola before she died?
2. How do the mother and daughter relationships between Irene and Nicola and Nicola and Ruby differ?
3. What purpose did William’s letters to Betty serve throughout the book?
4. How do you feel the nature of shame has changed over the decades?
5. Why does Nicola finally acknowledge to herself what happened at the party when she was 20?
6. What significance do the fairy statues have throughout the story?
7. Do you have any sympathy for Olive after her final revelations?
8. How is the relationship between siblings with different fathers, living in the same family, explored?
9. Do you think Nicola made the right decision in telling Ruby the truth?
10. Do you think Ruby and Maisie will grow up in a society that judges women in the same way as it judged their great-grandmother, grandmother and mother?
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