I’ve got a great #threeforthursday recommendation for you today. Epistolary novels—aka books told through letters!
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff is one of the most beloved examples. It was first published in 1970 and has been in reprint and various languages many times over.
If you loved this book, let me introduce you to Author Kim Fay @kimkfay. She has two beautiful epistolary novels—Love & Saffron and Kate & Frida—about friendship, food, books, love and just life! Her books remind me that you just never know who or how your life may cross paths with somebody special. I think some of us might even be able to relate because of the friendships we’ve made here on #bookstagram
While you may see three books in this picture, I would like to focus on Kate & Frida that published this past Tuesday—3/11. {Thank you to @prhaudio for my #gifted listening copy! With back and forth letters, I honestly wasn’t sure how this one would be on audio. Spoiler alert: It was fantastic and beautifully read by two narrators—Kelly Jaffer and Ines del Castillo.
Kate & Frida takes place in the 90s, which gave me an absolute nostalgic feeling. I may hate that the 90s is considered historical, but I love the trend of books taking place in this era.
Frida in her 20’s lives in Paris longing to be a real journalist—a war correspondent. To prepare herself for this role and dream, she writes to a bookshop in Seattle with a book request. Shy and naiveté bookseller Kate comes alive and into her shell with each letter she receives from Frida who is her opposite—a free spirit. The letters go back and forth for years through personal and world troubles and triumphs. It’s a book you just want to hug by the end. I certainly did. You’ll really want to be friends with these characters and perhaps pick up a pen & paper yourself to write to a friend! Highly recommended!
❓Do you still practice the art of snail mail?
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