Letters from Home

Name: Letters from Home
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristina McMorris
ISBN: 9781977343277

Author: Kristina McMorris

Narrator: Madeleine Dauer

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/05/2019

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Chicago, 1944. Liz Stephens has little interest in attending a USO club dance with her friends Betty and Julia. She doesn't need a flirtation with a lonely serviceman when she's set to marry her childhood sweetheart. Yet something happens the moment Liz glimpses Morgan McClain. They share only a brief exchange—cut short by the soldier's evident interest in Betty—but Liz can't forget him. Thus, when Betty asks her to ghostwrite a letter to Morgan, stationed overseas, Liz reluctantly agrees.

Thousands of miles away, Morgan struggles to adjust to the brutality of war. His letters from "Betty" are a comfort, their soul-baring correspondence a revelation to them both. While Liz is torn by her feelings for a man who doesn't know her true identity, Betty and Julia each become immersed in their own romantic entanglements. And as the war draws to a close, all three will face heart-wrenching choices, painful losses, and the bittersweet joy of new beginnings.

Beautifully rendered and deeply moving, Letters from Home is a story of hope and connection, of sacrifices made in love and war—and the chance encounters that change us forever.

About Kristina McMorris

Kristina McMorris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of Letters from Home and Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. She is the recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nominee for the prestigious RITA Award. Kristina has also been named one of Portland's "40 Under 40" by the Business Journal. She lives with her husband and two sons in Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 13, 2012

Let me start this off by saying I read this book front to back in 2 days. It was that good. I found myself staying up until 2 am both nights because I just needed to know how the story unfolded. I tried to read it about a year ago, got a few pages in, and put it down. This time I was fresh off readi......more

Goodreads review by Pam on January 17, 2021

When Liz attends a USO dance with two friends, she finds herself drawn to Morgan, a solider about to ship out. But Morgan only has eyes for her Betty, so Liz agrees to ghostwrite letters to him for her friend Betty. Strong feelings develop through the correspondence, but who is it that Morgan really......more

Goodreads review by Tatiana on March 17, 2018

In our age of email, text messaging, and high-tech cell phones that condense entire lives into tiny gadgets formerly reserved for spies, Kristina McMorris’ debut novel, Letters From Home, is a welcome dose of nostalgia, a love letter in itself for a simpler time, when patience truly was a virtue and......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 29, 2011

Although this isn’t a true epistolary novel (one that is written as a series of documents, usually letters), the plot is driven in an epistolary sense as the narrative is built around a series of letters. Most of the correspondence takes place between Liz, a female college student and Morgan, a youn......more

Goodreads review by Terri on March 23, 2019

Review also found at [URL not allowed] This book has been sitting on my to be read shelf for a really long time. As I have been focusing on reading ARCs for a long time, I thought it was about time to try to get through some of the unread books that have been "dusting up my she......more