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Title	:	Letters from Skye
Author	:	Jessica Brockmole
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 290 pages
Published	:	July 9th 2013 by Ballantine Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Cultural. Scotland. War

Letters from Skye

Jessica Brockmole

Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 13333 Users | 2422 Reviews

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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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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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I gave this book 2 stars on goodreads because I thought it was ok but can't say that I liked it.Letters from Skye: A Novel begins with a young American college student David Graham writing a fan letter to Elspeth Dunn a Scottish poet. Ms. Dunn writes back and an unlikely correspondence follows. Right from the start I couldn't picture these letters being written back in 1912. The tone of the letters was too forward and extroverted and then they also became just too overwrought. I also couldn't

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 '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 letter

This one, for me, was puketastic, and gag-me unrealistic. The author is a woman, and writes men just like women. I have never met or even heard of a man who would behave like David. And thank God, because no one would be able to stomach him. Just predictable and syrupy sweet. The saving grace is it was a very fast read. Mostly, I listened to the audio, and the narrators definitely contributed to the sickening sweetness. It was all I could do not to vomit onto the pages at times. I don't advise



After the topic of depression and suicide in my last read I needed something lighter. This is unashamedly a love story. Elspeth, a published poet, receives a fan letter one day in 1912 that leads into correspondences with a young man that encompasses World War 1. Yes, you can see where it is heading from the start and that romance will develop, but it is about the letters and the journey that is the key, because this romance is not as simple as it first appears. There are other letters in the

Letters from Skye is a sweet and simple book that ultimately disappointed me because the author seemed to believe that the cliched plot twists and insubstantial characters and setting could be saved by a charming concept. I love the idea of a novel told in letters or diaries and just last week read and reviewed a great example of this type of novel - Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. But to make that kind of novel succeed you have to have a strong narrative voice, a sense of a real