A Letter in the Wall, Eileen Brill
A Letter in the Wall, Eileen Brill
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A Letter in the Wall
A Novel

Author: Eileen Brill

Narrator: Tanya Saari

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Eileen Brill

Published: 02/02/2024

Synopsis

It's 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead. But her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter describing her predicament, she revists her past.Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege, Joan wrestles with turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires, an internal battle often resulting in self-destructive tendencies. When she attempts to push against the norms for women of her time in order to forge her own identity, she is met with resistance. Yet she can be her own worst enemy, alienating those who care deeply for her. Both manipulative and vulnerable, Joan is, like many people, complex and misunderstood.Inspired by a letter found hidden in the wall of a Pennsylvania home more than seventy years after its writing, A Letter in the Wall moves through several decades and events, from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Prohibition to the Great Depression to Vietnam, as it examines the internal and external factors that influence one woman's journey toward independence and empowerment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on May 20, 2022

Sometimes when you know the story behind the story, it makes it come alive. This was certainly the case for me when I heard Eileen Brill explain that she had found an old unmailed letter in her home. After doing some research, she discovered that the woman, Joan, who wrote it, was murdered in 1971.......more

Goodreads review by Annie on May 24, 2022

Genius! Eileen Brill brings us the “Letter in the Wall” scenario, only it’s a coming of age story about a thickly rich woman with a lot of layers to peel away as we turn thepages. I was in love with the sheer magnitude of character unfolding.Joan was so real in her imperfection. We are whisked throu......more

Goodreads review by Janet | purrfectpages on May 14, 2022

A Letter in the Wall’s story starts in 1971, introducing us to Joann Dumann, a fifty-something year old woman who believes she’s reflecting on her life on the eve of her death. As the drama unfolds, we come to understand the long, complicated history that has brought Joann to this point. Spanning ove......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 16, 2022

Thank you to @suzyapprovedbooktours and @eileengracebrill for having me on this tour of A Letter in the Wall! A Letter in the Wall is a story of a woman who was born in the wrong time period. It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann is afraid she’s going to be murdered by her former business partner. As she sits d......more

Goodreads review by Miss W Book Reviews on April 28, 2022

A Letter in the Wall by Eileen Brill is a captivating story that left me wanting to find a letter in my wall! The main character in this book is Joan and the book has a timeline from 1918 to the 1970's. This is a historical fiction based on the real events of the author Eileen who does indeed find a......more

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