Twenty-Six Letters
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Wilhelmina Mann can never seem to get anything right: her work, relationships and family are all on the rocks. But when she suddenly receives a stack of letters from her long-dead mother, everything she's ever known begins to change.
On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Wilhelmina Mann is already dealing with more than enough problems, so a birthday misadventure landing her in the lock-up is hardly even a surprise.
But that mistake leads to Wil receiving a packet of old letters; letters to Wil from her mother that were written just before she died, back when Wil was a small child.
Suddenly, Wil's life is thrown into a new kind of turmoil as she discovers the mother she lost. And while the letters begin as tales of growing up, they soon become a great love story, almost as great as the bond between mother and daughter. Caught in old, unexpected emotions and unresolved hurts, Wil risks everything to journey back to the tiny English village in which her mother grew up, searching for answers in another set of letters she is meant to find there.
But secrets are kept for a reason. Will she find the last letters? And will she want to know what they contain?
Twenty-Six Letters is a captivating novel entwining family, place and identity, the shame of keeping secrets and the liberation of finding them out.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The heroine in Twenty-Six Letters is Wilhelmina Mann—or Wil, Willy or Mina, depending on who you ask. Her name is fragmented, and so is her family. She’s not on good terms with her dad or sister and she keeps making big mistakes in life that further disappoint them. But the story takes an enchanting turn when Wil is given a bundle of letters written by her long-dead mother, Ann. The letters set her on a path that leads far from her home on Australia’s glittering Gold Coast to the other side of the world. It’s a pleasure to follow Wil as she journeys to a tiny English village and tries to illuminate her mother’s mysterious early life. The narrative is driven by Ann’s deeply heartfelt letters, which add great emotional depth to this absolute pageturner. We loved being immersed in Wil’s quest to reclaim her lost family story and with it, her identity.
