The Hatbox Letters: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 031235200X
- ISBN-13
- 9780312352004
- Series
- The Hatbox Letters
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-03-21
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Beth Powning
Description
Facing a second winter alone since her husband's untimely death, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding reads letters that have been collected from her grandparents' eighteenth-century Connecticut house and finds strength in what she learns about their seemingly idyllic marriage. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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