"Explores the intersection between magic and reality in the romantically troubled life of a letter detective in a wonderfully imaginative novel."
A beautiful debut. Before I read a single word I was sold on it because the idea of someone being a letter detective is fascinating to me. Their days are spent solving mysteries: missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names are just a few of the puzzles that face them daily.
William Woolf is the letter detective who becomes obsessed with the letters that arrive in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. The other characters in the novel are the other writers of letters; each letter creates a whole new character in the book. A mystical place, a myriad of stories, where reality and magic collide. The letters bring the internal emotional world into the open. Playful and profound.
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| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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'If you liked Harold Fry and Me Before You, you will love Cullen's nostalgic debut. This life-affirming book will draw you in and keep you there' Independent
William Woolf is a letter detective at the Dead Letters Depot in East London, spending his days reuniting lost mail with its intended recipient.
But when he discovers a series of letters addressed simply to 'My Great Love' everything changes . . .
Written by a woman to a soulmate she hasn't met yet, her heartfelt words stir William in ways he has long forgotten.
Could they be destined for him? And what would that mean for his own troubled marriage?
William must follow the clues in the letters to solve his most important mystery yet: his own heart.
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'I found myself totally transported into William's poignant and beguiling world of lost opportunities and love' A. J. Pearce, author of Sunday Times bestseller Dear Mrs Bird
'An enchanting contribution to the popular new trend of 'up lit', like Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' Irish Times
'Delightful' Sunday Times
SHORTLISTED FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS
The Lost Letters of William Woolf features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Debuts, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Lost Letters of William Woolf is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Lost Letters of William Woolf was written by Helen Cullen and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Lost Letters of William Woolf has 396 pages
£9.89
