Letters to a Stranger

BOOK TOUR!!! I just finished Letters to a stranger by Sarah Mitchell and here are my musings.

Imagine 17 in 1939 and being in love. In England during a war and the love of your life is italian. It is an imperfect world. Ruby has her whole world change then and the secret she keeps haunts her 80 years on.

Ruby is now an old lady and finds herself in a letter exchange program with a local school where she begins corresponding with a stranger, a mother of a small boy. Ruby feels the urge to share her secret after all these years but this truth has the power to destroy their friendship and change their worlds forever.

Did you get chills? You should have! This book is a one in a million read. I don't usually connect so well to books written in the format of text messages, letters, emails etc but this actually worked quite well in laying out this story.

I felt like I was connecting with old friends in Cassie and Ruby and reading about them unfolding on the pages was a pure literary delight. I loved the two timelines and it was so artfully done too. It was quite the story being weaved and it was executed with precision and class.

I especially loved all the story building. So beautiful and devastatingly heartbreaking that you won't be able to help but ugly cry. You won't be able to help being captivated by this majestic novel that the pages practically turn themselves.


5 stars. If you love a book that will break your heart in all the right ways, this has to be your next book.


Thank you @bookouture for having me on this tour and to @netgalley for my review copy