The Love Letter

Cathleen Schine

Original title: The love letter

first published 1995 Plume, 1998 257 pages

Smart, independent, and sexy, Helen MacFarquhar owns a tiny bookstore in an idyllic seaside town, where her life is exactly as she planned it, comfortable and full. But then an anonymous love letter arrives in her mail one steamy summer morning. Written by an unknown lover to a mysterious beloved, the letter becomes Helen's obsession. "How do you fall in love?" the letter asks. To her dismay, Helen finds out. Johnny...

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The Love Letter paperback · 2007 · Picador · 272 pages · 9780312426989
The love letter edition · 1998 · Plume · 257 pages
The love letter edition · 1996 · Houghton Mifflin · 389 pages
The love letter edition · 1996 · Sceptre · 257 pages
The love letter edition · 1995 · G.K. Hall · 316 pages
The love letter edition · 1995 · Houghton Mifflin Co. · 257 pages

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