There is context to everything in this book so that we truly understand why things are happening as they are. Kristan Higgins shows great insight into people’s lives and emotions through the way she paints a picture of each of her characters. The news changes all of these characters lives and brings them together as they struggle to adapt to their new reality, care for their father, and figure out each of their own lives, together and separately. When she hears the news of her father’s stroke, Juliet is in the midst of contemplating a career switch to being a smoke jumper, of all things, thinking that she might escape her overly busy and programmed life to start afresh with something entirely new. As she sits in the hospital waiting area, she picks up his buzzing phone and learns a secret about him. Meanwhile, her mother, Barb, is all ready to file for divorce from John when she receives news about what has happened.
She gets a call from her sister to tell her that her dad is in the hospital after experiencing a stroke. At the start, Sadie has just embarrassingly proposed to and been rejected by her boyfriend of two years.
It is told from the viewpoint of each of four characters: John, the father, Barb, the mother, Sadie, John’s favourite daughter, and Juliet, Barb’s favourite daughter. Always the Last to Know is the story of a family dealing with difficult circumstances and learning more about each other in the process.
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