The Love Letters: A Novel

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, a woman finds inspiration in a seventeenth-century nun's life after the loss of her child.

After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun.

Charlotte and Mariana's stories may be different in origin, but the...