The Last Anniversary family tree, from the Doughty sisters to Grace

In the series Connie has a daughter of her own. Mamamia names her as Connie’s daughter Margie, played by Susan Prior, with her husband Ron, played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, and their adult daughter Veronika, played by Danielle Macdonald.⁹ The chart draws Margie under Connie on a solid line and Margie and Ron as a married couple with Veronika below them.

Thomas is Connie’s grandson in the series. Both reviews call Connie his grandmother, and the AV Club names Margie as the mother of Thomas and Veronika.^8,9 Neither review says whether Ron is Thomas’s father, so the chart hangs Thomas from Margie alone. Ron as his father is likely, and the note on the line says it is not stated.

Foxtel’s own production announcement of November 2023 still calls Connie the great-aunt of Sophie’s former boyfriend, which is how the novel has it.⁶ The reviews of the finished episodes call her his grandmother, so the chart follows the reviews for the series and the section on the novel below gives the older version.

Enigma carries the double outline of the person the chart is about, because the mystery of her birth is the reason the family is famous. In the series she is a new grandmother.⁸

Grace is Enigma’s daughter in the series, played by Claude Scott-Mitchell, and she has a newborn.⁸ Mamamia says that Enigma has a complicated history with her daughter, and that the baby is Grace’s first child with her husband Callum, played by Uli Latukefu.⁹ The AV Club describes Grace’s mother as never particularly maternal.⁸ The chart draws Grace under Enigma alone, since no source names Grace’s father, and draws Grace and Callum as a married couple with their baby below them in the fourth generation.

That baby is the youngest of four generations on the chart, and Foxtel’s trailer announcement promises a series that peels back the layers of a unique family tree.⁷ Foxtel’s production announcement speaks of three generations of women.⁶

Sophie Honeywell starts the story. Connie has died and left her house on the island to Sophie, a newcomer and an outsider.^1,8 Sophie is the former girlfriend of Thomas, and Publishers Weekly notes that Thomas has since married and had a child.² The chart sets Sophie at the end of the Thomas row from the second story point on, with Thomas’s ex written under her name in place of a line, since a line would cross his sister. Thomas’s wife and child are not named in the sources, so they are not drawn.

In the series Sophie is a journalist, and the AV Club reads her job as the reason Connie chose her for an island with a decades-old secret.⁸ She has no blood or foster tie to anyone on the chart, which is why she stands apart from every parent line.

The novel came out in the United States from Harper in 2006, and Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review.² Penguin publishes it in Britain.¹ The book and the series share the sisters, the Munro baby, the island and Sophie’s inheritance, but they draw two branches differently.

In the novel Connie is Thomas’s aunt, not his grandmother. Publishers Weekly calls her Thomas’s Aunt Connie, and BookRags calls Thomas the great-nephew of the two sisters.^2,4 Grace is Thomas’s cousin in the novel, and Veronika is his sister, as in the series.²

Grace’s mother differs too. The Book Bag’s review of the novel sets new mother Grace beside her own mother Laura, who is off travelling the world, and adds that the baby found in 1932 is now a grandmother herself.⁵ That makes Enigma Grace’s grandmother in the book, one generation further back than in the series. The Book Bag is the only source opened for this page that names Laura, so the chart does not draw her, and Enigma’s other children are not named in any source opened for this page.

Kirkus counts five generations in the novel and describes the present-day islanders as Doughty grandchildren and great-grandchildren.³ The chart keeps to the series because every line of the series version rests on two reviews, while the middle generation of the novel rests on one.

This section gives away the ending of the novel. BookRags’s study guide of the novel says that Rose at last tells the others that she is Enigma’s mother, and that Jack and Alice Munro were made up to hide Rose’s pregnancy.⁴ The Book Bag hints at the same turn when it says that Enigma knows more about her birth mother than she lets on.⁵

That reading rests on one study guide, and the reviews of the series opened for this page do not describe the finale. The chart therefore keeps Enigma on the foster lines of both sisters and keeps the Munros on the dotted arrow of the island’s story. If you accept the reveal, open the chart in the editor and change Rose’s line to Enigma from foster to birth parent.

A square is a man, a circle is a woman and a diamond is a person whose sex the sources do not give, here Grace’s newborn. A horizontal line between two symbols is a couple, and the lines down from it lead to their children. A dotted parent line is a foster tie, and a solid line from one person alone means the sources name only that parent.

Connie carries the cross of a death from the second story point. The Munros carry no cross, because nobody knows what became of them. The double blue line and the grey dotted arrow are the chart’s own story lines, and the words at each end change with Story position.

To make your own version, open this chart in the editor, or browse the other story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.