What a Hazard a Letter Is
Caroline Atkins
Caroline Atkins
Letters are, as the critic Janet Malcolm puts it,
‘fossils of feeling’: Once written and sent, their sentiments cannot be
taken back. But what if, once written, they’re not sent – or never arrive?
This is the first book to look at unsent letters in all their forms:
David Nicholls’ One Day, and from Beethoven’s mysterious muse t
o Iris Murdoch, in unsent letters that are by turns magnificent tirades, unbearably poignant, and all too often tell truths too near the mark to send.
Published on 20th September 2018 by Safe Haven Books
You can buy it from bookshops and on Amazon
amzn.to/2oUCEim
‘fossils of feeling’: Once written and sent, their sentiments cannot be
taken back. But what if, once written, they’re not sent – or never arrive?
This is the first book to look at unsent letters in all their forms:
- the expressions of love left unsaid that could have changed two people’s
- lives, the shooting from the hip outbursts that, if not thought better of,
- would have landed the author in hot water, the plot twists in novels
- caused by letters going astray, the letters that events conspired
- to leave unsent, by death, disaster or providence, the habitual un-senders
- of letters, from Emily Dickinson to President Truman.
David Nicholls’ One Day, and from Beethoven’s mysterious muse t
o Iris Murdoch, in unsent letters that are by turns magnificent tirades, unbearably poignant, and all too often tell truths too near the mark to send.
Published on 20th September 2018 by Safe Haven Books
You can buy it from bookshops and on Amazon
amzn.to/2oUCEim