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Rebecca Lipkin – Author of Unto This Last
England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x Present day. Ruby Summers has lived an extraordinary life. Now, at ninety-six years old and living in a quiet countryside retirement home, Ruby may be an elderly lady, but her memory remains perfect. She remembers the summer in rural Norfolk eighty years ago when s
What I Thought:
I wondered often during the pandemic lockdowns when we would start to see books and TV start to include this in their narrative – I have the answer from my point of view, as Letters to a Stranger is the first novel I’ve read in which the pandemic takes centre stage.
kirstyes | Books, Occupation… Magic!
Rebecca Lipkin – Author of Unto This Last