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A book dealer finds a love letter from WWII in a discarded book. Trying to track down the sender and the recipient he stumbles across a mystery: they seem to be appearing in photos over a period of 120-odd years but hardly aging.

Beautifully lyrical novella.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ of 5 ⭐️s

Review based on an #ARC given to me for free by Tor.com Publishing

This novella essentially has two storylines, but it doesn‘t focus on Ben and Tom's story like I thought it would. Still, what there is of their story is lovely, and really McDonald‘s prose is gorgeous - it‘s just not quite the story I thought it‘d be. So YMMV folks, just saying.

Slightly dreamy and poetic, which is at odds with the story, but nonetheless enjoyable

2019 PKD award nom

Badly overwritten with too many details that I suppose were meant to make the setting pop. Wasn't feeling it so they just made for tedious reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2603770911

So, DO NOT READ THE JACKET COPY on this one! This was my book for #ModernMrsDarcy for a book recommended by a librarian, and she gave me the same warning - it was a four star read for me, and then I read the jacket and understood, it is describing a completely different book. Four stars instead of five because wanted more of the chapters focused on Tom and Ben!