Jessica Brockmole
Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.9 | 13333 Users | 2422 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Letters from Skye |
| ISBN: | 0345542606 (ISBN13: 9780345542601) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Isle of Skye, Scotland |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Author (2013) |
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A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence—sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets—their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he’ll survive.
June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn’t understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth’s house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth’s whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago.
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| Title | : | Letters from Skye |
| Author | : | Jessica Brockmole |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | July 9th 2013 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Cultural. Scotland. War |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 13333 Users | 2422 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Letters from Skye
The last 'epistolary novel' I read was the truly wonderful The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, one of my favourite books of all time. So I went into Letters from Skye, another story told entirely in letters, with the bar set extremely high.Letters from Skye is Jessica Brockmole's first novel. It contains two threads: the World War I story of Elspeth Dunn, a poet living on Skye, and Davey, the American college student who sends her a fan letterThis was an unusual book. It took a little while to get into it and I found it to be a book which I didn't just read straight through. I would move on a little and quite enjoy pondering on the thoughts and feelings of the people involved in it. A quote on the book said..."Words on the page can drench the soul" and after reading I quite agree with parts of this book. The mention of the Isle of Skye first drew me to it as I have always wanted to visit there. I do believe that often with a
Elspeth is fond of saying to her daughter that 'the first volume of my life is out of print'. But when a bomb hits Edinburgh street and Margaret finds her mother crouched in the ruins of her bedroom pulling armfuls of yellowed letters onto her lap, the past Elspeth has kept so carefully locked away is now exposed and out in the open. The next day, Elspeth disappears.I really enjoyed reading this novel, the format of reading the lives through letters and no actual narration as such was
I remember that, when I was a very small child, my godmother used to travel from her home in Plymouth to the Isle of Skye for her summer holidays every year. And I remember telling her that it was a very, very long way, and her telling me that it was worth it, because there was something magical about Skye.Maybe it was that memory that drew me towards this book. Id like to think so, because I think that there is something of that same magic that my godmother found between these pages.This a
Some of the books and movies I love pull back the veil and reveal me to be a hopeless romantic, and this is going to be one of them. I sat and read this cover to cover without a break, except for when the emotions got too intense and I flipped over to check my e-mail. The entire book, set during both world wars, is written in letters. During the first world war, the letters are between a female poet living on the Isle of Skye and a slightly younger male fan of her work. The second world war
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 transformative power of a letter - the letter that shouldn't have been sent, the letter that is never sent and the letter the reader will keep forever.After a wartime bomb in Edinburgh, and Elspeth's nextday
The last 50 or so pages would earn the book an extra half-star, I should say. I read this book because it was pitched to me as a good companion to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: epistolary novel, wartime secrets, crossing the generations, a remote island setting. On the surface, it's an apt comparison. But where Guernsey is a charming and old-fashioned story, Letters from Skye feels rushed and largely unbelievable. More to the point, the language in the letters, particularly
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