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The Letters Left Behind
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 11 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When 42-year-old schoolteacher Grace Holloway inherits her estranged father's dilapidated house, she sees it only as a burden to be cleared and sold. But deep within the dust and decay, she discovers a locked trunk filled with hundreds of letters from a man she never knew: a passionate, hopeful, and poetic version of her father from long before she was born.
The letters tell a story of a great love, of towering ambition, and of the crushing weight of shame that transformed a vibrant dreamer into the silent, distant man of her memory. Forced to confront the truth of what was left broken in the silence, Grace must re-examine every memory she has held onto.
The Letters Left Behind is a moving, powerful novel about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and the quiet, transformative grace of forgiveness, which can only be found by reading the words left unsaid.
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