7/8/2023 0 Comments Letters to skye![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, the story moves through the Great War and the time between the wars into the beginning years of World War II. The story begins in 1912, just before World War I. When she receives a fan letter from American student David Graham, Elspeth answers his letter with one of her own. Elspeth Dunn, married to Iain, is a poet who lives on the island of Skye off the coast of Scotland. Brockmole tries in Letters from Skye, but in doing so she loses the realism and and even makes the whole tawdry story a bit boring by the time this reader figured out that this novel was going to be a “happily ever after” story, after all. Tolstoy ( Anna Karenina), Flaubert ( Madame Bovary), and other greats nailed the first two adjectives, realistic and compelling, but no book that I can recall has managed to make adultery “heart-warming”. I will admit that it’s really difficult to write a realistic, compelling, and heart-warming story about an adulterous affair. ![]()
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