The Love Letters

Name: The Love Letters
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN: 9781543629743

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 01/23/2018

Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

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 same inner turmoil. As she reads the letters, Mariana’s spiritual journey sheds light on Charlotte’s own crisis. Finding inspiration in the nun’s struggles with sin, temptation, and faith, Charlotte gains perspective on her own mind—and sets out to accept the demanding, challenging nature of love.

About Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L’Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called “Crosswicks.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole

I am a huge L'Engle fan and I've read almost her entire body of work. She has been a formative influence for me and she is my all-time favorite author. Yet this book was difficult for me to read. There are two main reasons for this: 1) Style and 2) Substance. Which is to say - everything. First of al......more

Goodreads review by Sara

NOT a light read. I'm a L'Engle fan from her "Wrinkle in Time" series. This is an adult book. Very deep. Follows two parallel love stories in two different eras, but this is not a romance. No, this is an intelligent discussion of God/purity/marriage/death. Sometimes, I'd have to stop and make sure m......more

Goodreads review by Ember

Wanted to read some more Madeleine L'Engle, so I picked this off the shelf at my library. I wasn't sure how I felt about the unique transitions in this book, but after a little while I grew to like them a lot. The stories of Charlotte and Mariana were woven together nicely. The only problem was that......more