Praise for Letters From Skye A love story to the power of the written word.USA Today Jessica Brockmole is a gifted storyteller who weaves beauty and emotion into her pages. As Margaret sets out to discover who David is and where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago. Letters from Skye, an epistolary love story spanning two world wars, available now from Ballantine Books. Only a single letter, sent decades before by a stranger named David Graham, remains as a clue to Elspeth's whereabouts. And after a nearby bomb rocks Elspeth's house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Her mother warns her against finding love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn't understand. June 1940: More than twenty years later, at the start of World War II, Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, has fallen for her best friend, a pilot in the Royal Air Force. But as World War I moves across Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he comes back alive. 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. So she is astonished when a fan letter arrives from an American college student, David Graham. Gracefully weaving the tales of lovers and brothers and sisters spanning two wars, Brockmole expertly explores the toll of both honesty and deception upon hearts battered by war and society's expectations. It was really difficult when I woke up and you werent there to help me with breakfast and presents. March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet and a fisherman's wife, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland's bucolic Isle of Skye. 'Jessica Brockmole's Letters from Skye is a fascinating, lyrical tale of love and loss.

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