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IONA GREY is the author of Letters to the Lost. She has a degree in English Literature and Language from Manchester University, an obsession with history and an enduring fascination with the lives of women in the twentieth century. She lives in rural Cheshire with her husband and three daughters.
Letters to the Lost: A Novel
by Iona Grey
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ISBN-13:
9781466874688
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publication date: 05/26/2015
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 384
- File size: 845 KB
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1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London…
Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in five.
… He promised to love her forever
Seventy years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone, and the letter is opened by Jess, a young girl hiding from problems of her own. And as Jess reads Dan's words, she is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright and dimmed too soon. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?
Now forever is finally running out.
'A wonderful story' Rosamunde Pilcher
'An epic story of love and loss that will break your heart' Santa Montefiore
'A beautiful, tender story from a naturally gifted storyteller. A wonderful debut novel and a real weepy!' Lucinda Riley
'A beautifully woven tale of love and loss that breaks your heart and rebuilds it; I couldn't put it down' Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House
'A warm, compelling and beautifully crafted love story, Letters to the Lost is elegantly written and extremely well-researched, and the wonderfully satisfying ending made me sob' Susan Elliot Wright
'This novel is Romantic with a capital 'R', a story to lose yourself in. It sweeps you up into the lives of its characters and makes you hope that sometimes lost loves can be found.' Kate Lord Brown
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Praise for Letters to the Lost
New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmake Kate Alcott
Letters to the Lost pulsates with life, offering a vibrant love story that transcends time and the heartbreak of war. Settle in somewhere comfortable; you are in for an enthralling read.
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
A wonderful story.
New York Times bestselling author of The Ashford A Lauren Willig
Letters to the Lost is a powerful debut, one of those rare books that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go. It's a heart-wrenching, smile-through-the-tears story of love lost and refound - you won't be able to put it down!
international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters - Lucinda Riley
A beautiful, tender story from a naturally gifted storyteller. A wonderful debut!
international bestselling author of The Beekeeper’s Daughter - Santa Montefiore
An epic story of love and loss that will break your heart.
international bestselling author of The Perfume Garden - Kate Lord Brown
Sweeps you up into the lives of its characters and makes you hope that sometimes lost loves can be found.
author of Secrets of a Charmed Life - Susan Meissner
A wonderful, double-woven story of two women who must bear the unfair weight of past wounds and who yet tenaciously hold onto the resolve to never give up on love. Iona Grey's engaging prose is resonant and lyrical; a delicious and moving read from page one to the last.
Library Journal
04/15/2015Escaping her abusive boyfriend, Jessica Moran takes refuge as a squatter in a long-abandoned London house where the next morning a letter addressed to a Mrs. S. Thorne is dropped through the slot. Upon opening the letter, she learns that the writer is an American ex-serviceman who is making a last valiant attempt to find his lost English love, whom he has not seen in 70 years. Inspired by this passionate and urgent letter and her own curiosity, Jess vows to find Stella and bring these lost souls together if at all possible. VERDICT Grey's engaging, poignant, and romantic debut treats readers to an absorbing story within a story. Her detailed narrative chronicles the lives of these intriguing characters while fluidly traveling from past to present. The author's subtle depictions of social and moral intolerances of the past and the gentle hand of fate that guides this tale makes her novel an excellent choice for fans of Beatrice Williams (Overseas; A Hundred Summers), Jon Clinch (The Thief of Auschwitz), and Kristina McMorris (Bridge of Scarlet Leaves).—Debbie Haupt, St. Charles City-Cty. Lib. Dist., MO