<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 405107195 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Last Song is a 2009 novel by American author Nicholas Sparks . The Last Song is Sparks' fourteenth published novel (fifteenth published book), and was written specifically as the basis for the film adaptation by the same name . It was released on September 1, 2009 by Grand Central Publishing . The story revolves around the summer of Ronnie (Veronica) Miller's seventeenth year, during which she is sent to stay with her estranged father . Through their shared love of music, the duo reconnect . </P> <P> 17 - year - old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller is a troubled teenager who is wanting to live her own life and is trying her very best to ignore her divorced parents: Kim, her mother with whom she lives in New York, and Steve, her father who lives in his hometown of Wrightsville Beach, NC . Her mother decides that it would be in everyone's best interest if Ronnie and her 10 - year - old brother, Jonah, spent the summer in Wrightsville Beach with Steve . Jonah is excited, while Ronnie can only wonder why her parents hate her so much as to send her there for the summer . </P> <P> Once they arrive, Kim leaves and Ronnie runs off to the carnival down at the beach, where she watches a volleyball game in the crowd . As she turns to leave, one of the players, the privileged Will Blakelee, knocks into her while trying to reach the ball, spilling her soda all through the front of her shirt . </P>

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