Letters from Skye Brockmole, Jessica

Elspeth Dunn is a poet on the Isle of Skye when a letter arrives from an American college student — a fan who's read her work. It's 1912, and what begins as literary correspondence becomes something deeper, more urgent. Then World War I erupts, scattering them across continents. Decades later, Elspeth's daughter uncovers the hidden letters and discovers her mother lived an entirely different story than she'd been told. Jessica Brockmole constructs this epistolary novel with the kind of aching restraint that makes you read slower, not faster — every letter is a small revelation, building toward truths about love, war, and the secrets we keep to protect the people we raise. It's intimate, beautifully paced, and set against the wild Scottish coast. For readers who loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or anyone who still believes in the power of a handwritten letter.