Letters From Skye: A Novel

Title: Letters From Skye: A Novel
Author(s): Jessica Brockmole
Genre: Historical Fiction/ Romance
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Estimated Price: Pre- Order Hard Copy $14.48, Kindle Edition $12.99.
 I won my ARC in a goodreads giveaway.

March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet on Scotland's remote Isle of Skye, receives a fan letter from an American college student, David Graham. Their correspondence blossoms into friendship, and eventually into love. And when David volunteers as an ambulance driver during the Great War, Elspeth can only hope he survives.

June 1940: Elspeth's daughter Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force, but her mother warns her against finding love in wartime. Then, after a nightly air raid, Elspeth disappears, and Margaret is left with only a decades- old letter as a clue to her mother's whereabouts- and to what happened to her family long ago.

My Thoughts

I enjoyed every second of reading this book, it captivates you so quickly through the correspondence between the characters. Each letter makes you understand and feel for each character. There are plot twists that a reader doesn't see coming, yet they are perfectly woven into this world Jessica Brockmole has created. As a lover of both history and good fiction this was the perfect book. I loved that the novel is told through letters, it moved quickly, but held the truth of the characters. Beautifully constructed, I can not wait for my copy to come in. An amazing debut novel.

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