The Love Letters: A Novel

Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.

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 they share the sam...