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The Letters We Never Sent
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Kindred Quill Publishing
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Two hundred and twelve letters. Forty years. Not one of them sent.
When Walter Pascoe dies at Seaview House, care worker Nell Harding is holding his hand. His last words are a message she doesn't understand: Tell her I kept my word. Then, in the back of his wardrobe, she finds a tartan shortbread tin full of letters, every one addressed to the same woman, and not one of them posted.
Margaret Ellery is eighty-eight, and lives in a nursing home near Clevedon, nearly two hours up the motorway. Her grandson Tom, a quiet boatbuilder who keeps his feelings behind a closed door, isn't sure he wants a stranger stirring up the past. But the letters were written for his grandmother, and he can't find a way to say no.
So Tom writes a list of rules, and every Sunday Nell drives up the M5 to read the letters aloud to Margaret, while Tom listens. And as the story of a harbour, a light and a promise unfolds, they begin to uncover what really happened in 1963, and why the one letter that mattered never arrived.
A warm, moving, closed-door romance about love, memory, and the words we wait too long to say.
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