Beth Powning
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.1 | 441 Users | 77 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Hatbox Letters |
| ISBN: | 031235200X (ISBN13: 9780312352004) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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A luminescent debut novel following one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewalIn her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents' eighteenth-century Connecticut house. Kate remembers the sense of permanence and refuge that she felt in her grandparents' apple-scented world, as well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate's eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood, becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of her unraveled life.
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| Title | : | The Hatbox Letters |
| Author | : | Beth Powning |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | March 21st 2006 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published August 17th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
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Ratings: 3.1 From 441 Users | 77 ReviewsPiece Based On Books The Hatbox Letters
I only got about half-way. Unbelievable use of adjectives; all over the place in terms of plot. Sometimes I thought we were going to be able to explore a relationship or idea, and off she'd go again. I had high hopes for this but it just isn't worth my time.I am a huge fan of New Brunswick author Beth Powning, but this was definitely not one of my favorites. Main protagonist, Kate, sits in her New Brunswick Canada home and sorts through a new life as a young widow. Her grown children have lives of their own now and so most of her time is spent tending the garden that she and husband Tom created together. In the midst of all this, an old acquaintance re-enters her life and a series of letters gives her insight into her grandparent's courtship.
The story of a woman who loses her husband while in her 50's and how she tries to continue on in semi-rural New Brunswick, Canada. Her story is interwoven with that of her grandparents and the story of how they met and made a life together, which the main character discovers through reading many old letters, diaries, photos, and other items kept in hatboxes.Tons of description in this book - emotional as well as situational - which dragged the book down in certain parts, but overall it was an
I don't even know how I will be able to finish this book. Does she ever even read the hatbox letters? This is quite possibly the worst book I've read. Not sure if I will finish it
This book wasn't my kind of book. Found it to descriptive, did keep reading hoping it would get better. It didn't so I gave up.
Loved part V! You needed parts I to IV to appreciate the learning and wisdom of part V. Learning to live with loss and finding a way to move on is an individual and arduous journey.
This is a very nicely written novel about a woman after the death of her husband, Tom, intertwined with her family history contained in The Hatboxes. It is tender, sad, some of it funny but throughout we learn how the woman lives her life post- this life changing - death and gains some solace through her family history. I always enjoy novels that mention places I know, but the author does more by making you understand how she is enveloped by her place; her friends, her children, her husband, her
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