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Letters from Skye a novel

March 1912: Elspeth Dunn, a published poet and a fisherman's wife, has never seen the world beyond her home on the Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when a fan letter arrives from American college student, David Graham. They strike up a correspondence, and their exchange blossoms into love. But when David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only hope he survives. June 1940: Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, has fallen for her best friend, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, although her mother warns her against finding love in wartime. After a nearby bomb rocks Elspeth's house, and hidden letters are released from their hiding place, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to her whereabouts...

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  • "Letters from Skye"@it
  • "Letters from Skye"@he

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  • "Roman épistolaire de l'amitié amoureuse qui unit, à partir de 1912, une jeune poétesse de l'île de Skye, au large de l'Ecosse, et un étudiant américain.--[Memento]."
  • "March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland's remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence -- sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets -- their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he'll survive... June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn't understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth's house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth's whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago."
  • "March 1912: Elspeth Dunn, a published poet and a fisherman's wife, has never seen the world beyond her home on the Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when a fan letter arrives from American college student, David Graham. They strike up a correspondence, and their exchange blossoms into love. But when David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only hope he survives. June 1940: Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, has fallen for her best friend, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, although her mother warns her against finding love in wartime. After a nearby bomb rocks Elspeth's house, and hidden letters are released from their hiding place, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to her whereabouts..."
  • "March 1912: Elspeth Dunn, a published poet and a fisherman's wife, has never seen the world beyond her home on the Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when a fan letter arrives from American college student, David Graham. They strike up a correspondence, and their exchange blossoms into love. But when David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only hope he survives. June 1940: Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, has fallen for her best friend, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, although her mother warns her against finding love in wartime. After a nearby bomb rocks Elspeth's house, and hidden letters are released from their hiding place, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to her whereabouts..."@en
  • "Eine Liebe, die ein Ozean trennt. Zwei Herzen, die einander nie vergessen können. Isle of Skye 1912. Eines Tages erhält die schottische Schriftstellerin Elspeth einen Brief aus Amerika. Der Absender, ein junger Mann namens David, bewundert ihre Gedichte. Obwohl ein Ozean zwischen ihnen liegt, ist es der Beginn einer tiefen Liebe. Erst die Wirren des Weltkrieges führen die beiden zusammen, nur um sie unter tragischen Umständen wieder zu trennen. Mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte später stösst Elspeths Tochter Margaret auf Davids Briefe und kommt so der Geschichte dieser schicksalhaften Liebe auf die Spur ... Jessica Brockmole verbrachte mehrere Jahre in Schottland. Die Idee zu ihrem ersten Roman entstand während einer langen Fahrt von der schottischen Isle of Skye nach Edinburgh. Die Autorin lebt heute mit ihrem Ehemann und ihren zwei Kindern in Indiana und schreibt gerade an ihrem zweiten Roman."
  • "Elspeth is fond of saying to her daughter that 'the first volume of my life is out of print'. But when a bomb hits an Edinburgh street and Margaret finds her mother crouched in the ruins of her bedroom pulling armfuls of yellowed letters onto her lap, the past Elspeth has kept so carefully locked away is out in the open. The next day, Elspeth disappears. Left alone with the letters, Margaret discovers a mother she never knew existed: a poet living on the Isle of Skye who in 1912 answered a fan letter from an impetuous young man in Illinois."@en
  • "A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears."
  • "A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears."@en

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Wat stories"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Love stories. |"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Epistolary fiction"
  • "Epistolary fiction"@en

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  • "Letters from Skye a novel"
  • "Letters from Skye a novel"@en
  • "Letters from Skye A Novel"@en
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  • "מכתבים מסקאי"
  • "Mikhtavim mi-sḳai"
  • "Une lettre de vous"
  • "Brieven van skye"
  • "Letters from Skye"
  • "Letters from Skye"@en
  • "Eine Liebe über dem Meer"
  • "Eine Liebe über dem Meer Roman"
  • "Letters from Skye : a novel"
  • "Letters from Skye : a novel"@en
  • "Ni dana bez tebe"
  • "Novemila giorni e una sola notte : romanzo"@it
  • "Novemila giorni e una sola notte : romanzo"
  • "Cartas desde la isla de Skye"@es
  • "Une lettre de vous : roman"
  • "Eine Liebe über dem Meer : Roman"
  • "Brieven van Skye"

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