Garner said that in her letter she wrote, 'I haven't done this, I haven't felt so drawn to a role, that I needed to let you know why you need to cast me and why I'm right for this job!' Her latest, 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' is her most-read yet, catching the attention of Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine media company, along with A-listers like Jennifer Garner, who even wrote a letter to producers asking to play the title role.

The finished product, 'London Is the Best City in America,' became a New York Times bestseller, launching her career. And I remember distinctly lying on the floor of my childhood bedroom and my father saying, 'Well, what are you going to do now?' And I said, 'Well, I'm going to start again.' That's the moment I became, to myself, convinced that I was going to write, and was going to spend my life writing one way or another, because no other option felt possible.' But patience and perseverance seem to have always been her virtues, ever since she began working on her very first novel in her 20s: 'I was in a coffee shop working on finishing my novel, and I spilled water on my computer, and I lost the entire thing. It would be another decade before Dave spun that idea into publishing gold. 'And I was fascinated by the idea of a woman who found herself in the situation where the world was telling her her husband was someone, and she believed him to be someone else.' 'I saw Kenneth Lay's wife give an interview, in which she said, 'My husband's done nothing wrong,'' said Dave. That million-dollar idea first came to Laura Dave 20 years ago, following the 2001 collapse of Enron. The thriller follows Garner's character, Hannah, after her husband (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) vanishes, leaving her and her stepdaughter to piece together the mystery themselves – all while wondering how well they actually know the man they love.

It's also now an Apple TV+ series starring Jennifer Garner that began streaming Friday. These docks serve as the opening location for her bestselling novel, 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster (a part of CBS' parent company, Paramount Global). Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti with bestselling author Laura Dave. 'That dichotomy was something I really wanted to be the backdrop to someone who is both searching for community, and also someone who needs to hide,' she said. 'They are both incredibly private, and yet, you have this wonderful community of people.'įor Dave, it was also the perfect setting for a mystery. 'There are about 400 floating homes here and in Marin County,' said author Laura Dave. Sausalito, California, is a Bay Area bohemia best known for its views of San Francisco and maze of floating homes.

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