From Random House UK, Cornerstone, Hutchinson; many thanks. This ebook has 187 pages. Dedication: My breathmy lightthe one my heart flies toward.Jim.From the front of the book: Played out across oceans in peacetime and wartime but most of all in paper and ink, Letters from Skye is about the transfo...
I would give this two and a half stars, if possible. I had very high hopes - WWI, WWII, British people, poetry, forbidden love, flashbacks, family history - it's like my own personal checklist of favorite reading topics. It was engaging enough for me to read and finish in a short amount of time and ...
I'm a sucker for an epistolary novel and this did not disappoint! I started it early this morning and just finished with tears in my eyes. And I don't usually cry! A beautiful little story and a quick read. If you enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society, I think you'll really enjoy...
What begins as a letter from a fan, turns to a love story spanning decades.Beginning during WWI, Elspeth Dunn, a reclusive poet receives fan mail from a Mr. David Graham. One response turns into a steady correspondence between the two sight unseen.Over time, we find out Elspeth is in fact married, D...
I listened to the audio version of this book and found it extremely moving and engaging. There were several readers playing the part of individual characters. All were excellent.The book takes place in two parallel time zones of war, one beginning in 1912 and the other in 1940. It is told through a ...
Perhaps I should preface this by saying that I am out in the country writing this, in a vacation state of mind. As a fan of historical fiction, I particularly love to read novels that take place in wartime, and this novel has all of that — told in parts by two women narrators, during the first and s...
This book took me a little while to read, though not through any fault of its own. I've been in a not-reading place for the last several weeks, and I haven't read much of anything at all. This book is actually a very quick read (when I don't find myself distracted by other things), especially consid...
A poem, a letter, subsequent letters, and then blossoming love. LETTERS FROM SKYE is a book of letters from a fan to a poet…fan letters that turned into more than just correspondence. The fan lives in the United States, and the poet lives in the Isle of Skye and is set during WWI and WWII. The l...
A story of wartime romances told in letters between a reclusive poet and an American ambulance driver in WWI, interspersed with letters from the poet’s daughter to her own WWII-soldier beau.I should have told you, shouldn’t taught you to steel your heart. Taught you that a letter isn’t always just ...
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