The letter
By: Kathryn Hughes
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781472229953
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Letters; Family violence; Unmarried mothers; Fiction; Interpersonal relations; Abused women; Love-letters; Women
Description: Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. While going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it -- a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever ... Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does -- in more ways than he can ever imagine ... The Letter tells the story of two women, born decades apart, whose paths are destined to cross and how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation.
Notes: Contains "bonus material" at the end of the book.