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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1960, Jennifer Stirling wakes in the hospital and remembers nothing--not the car accident that put her there, not her wealthy husband, not even her own name. Searching for clues, she finds an impassioned letter, signed simply "B," from a man for whom she seemed willing to risk everything. In 2003, journalist Ellie Haworth stumbles upon the letter and becomes obsessed with learning the unknown lovers' fate--hoping it will inspire her own happy ending....
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Violet Baumgartner has opened her annual holiday letter the same way for the past three decades. And this year she's going to throw her husband, Ed, a truly perfect retirement party, one worthy of memorializing in her upcoming letter. But the event becomes a disaster when, in front of two hundred guests, Violet learns her daughter Cerise has been keeping a shocking secret from her, shattering Violet's carefully constructed world.
6) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.
In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn't remember choosing. Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney's famous poem, they begin writing letters to one...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt...
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love...
11) To catch a dream
Author
Series
Wish novels (Audrey Carlan) volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Evie Ross discovers letters from her mother in a safety deposit box and is given a new perspective on her family, heart, and dreams in the second novel of a trilogy following What the Heart Wants.
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers, and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in [the author's previous book] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A series of anonymous accusations sent via post have set friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor. In her new position as magistrate, Edwina has already had to settle one dispute that led to fisticuffs. Even Beryl has received a poison pen letter, and while she finds its message preposterous and laughable, others are taking the missives to heart. Their headstrong housekeeper Beddoes is ready to resign and one villager has attempted to...
Author
Series
Wish novels (Audrey Carlan) volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her newly discovered half-sisters whisk her away to the small town of Pueblo, Colorado, 25-year-old Isabeau Collins decides to put down roots with a family she never knew she had and is drawn to a man in whom she recognizes a loss similar to her own.
15) Evergreen falls
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From internationally bestselling author Kimberley Freeman comes a captivating new novel about a scandalous attraction, a long-forgotten secret, and a place where two women's lives are changed forever.
1926. Violet Armstrong is a waitress at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel, where Australia's glitterati are spending a winter vacation. Among the guests are Sam and Flora Honeychurch-Blacks, a wealthy brother and sister ensconced in the hotel for an extended...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels ... In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this ... novel uses to tell that tale is a series of ... letters...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
Author
Series
Amish letters novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Her fingertips brushed against something else in the box of doilies. She lifted a bundle of letters, neatly tied with a thin red ribbon. Ivy Yoder hasn't heard from John King in over a year. She knows it's time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry, but she's humiliated to be one of the oldest single women in her Amish community of Birch Creek. When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the...
Author
Language
English
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After Alice's older brother runs away at fifteen, the next she hears of him is that he's dead. Eight years after the funeral, Alice cleans out her childhood home in Georgia only to find her brother's autopsy report showing the many lies behind his death. She also discovers sealed, addressed letters he wrote shortly before he died. In a search for the truth, Alice delivers the letters to his closest friends, lovers, and enemies, each letter daring...
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