A long-lost letter draws a woman to a decaying English castle, uncovering her mother’s wartime secrets in an atmospheric gothic mystery.
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A long-lost letter draws a woman to a decaying English castle, uncovering her mother’s wartime secrets in an atmospheric gothic mystery.
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It started with a letter. A letter that had been lost for a long time, waiting out half a century, stifling summer after cooling winter, in a forgotten postal bag in the dim attic of a nondescript house in Bermondsey. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret.
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Past love affairs and romantic disappointment; closed-door, non-explicit
Violence & gore
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Wartime peril and dark secrets involving death; limited graphic detail
Profanity
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Infrequent mild language typical of adult literary fiction
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Gothic mood only; no occult practices depicted
Political content
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WWII home-front backdrop and class differences
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Emotional neglect, family cruelty, trauma, and mental deterioration
Other
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