The love letter - Cathleen Schine

Smart, independent and sexy, Helen MacFarquhar owns a tiny bookshop in an idyllic seaside town, where her life is exactly as she planned it, comfortable and full. But then an anonymous letter arrives in her mail one steamy summer morning. Written by an unknown lover to a mysterious beloved, the letter becomes Helen's obsession. 'How do you fall in love?', the letter asks, and to her dismay, Helen finds out when the letter propels her into a fiercely tender love affair with Johnny, a student working in her shop ...

'Funny, sexy and unusually intelligent' - Gill Hornby, The Times

Funny, sexy and unusually intelligent
Gill Hornby, The Times