LETTERS FROM SKYE by Jessica Brockmole

Note: I am not a paid reviewer, and I have purchased this title to read for my personal enjoyment.

A love story that uses WW1 and WW2 as props to set in motion chaos that brings Elspeth and Davey together, drives them apart, and back together. Told through exchanges of letters in “epistolary narrative” that went out of style two centuries ago, emotion seems to ooze from their written words. Fan mail from Davey to poet Elspeth becomes clever banter, then an emotional connection as Elspeth’s husband leaves for WW1. She feels the void of a woman left at home, and comes to understand how Davey touches her soul in ways her husband cannot. Yet topsy turvy circumstances of Davey’s service as a WW1 ambulance driver keep Elspeth and Davey apart. Over two decades later, Elspeth’s daughter seeks to unlock the mysteries of their relationship through an exchange of letters with Elspeth’s estranged brother, and to give them a second chance if Elspeth can survive the Blitz of London in 1940.