THE LETTER DIARIES
Based on a lifetime of real-life letters written by a daughter, a mother and a grandmother
THE LETTER DIARIES invites readers on a therapeutic journey in a refresh of their own lives as the author restarts hers through the reopening of time-gone-by letters. When letters are reopened, a promise buried in one of the letters is unearthed, but only at death can the promise be fulfilled.
This new book offering returns readers to the golden age of letter writing made popular by the most widely read novelist in English literature, Jane Austen. In her most famous Pride & Prejudice or Becoming Jane, a new day was not complete without the arrival of a letter or an anticipated reply.
Letters are once again the glue that holds life together similarly bridging time and distance but through a new generation of women. A daughter, a mother and a grandmother travel a lifetime together through the written word in correspondence from English villages to American big cities, and from here, there and everywhere.
If you enjoyed Renee Zellweger's journaling in Bridget Jones's Diary, Reese Witherspoon's mental makeover in Wild, From Lost to Found, and Gwyneth Paltrow's dual paths in the 80's British-American film Sliding Doors, then you will enjoy our story of colossal mishap. Despite all that can go wrong does go wrong, the women find hope in troubled times, insight amid chaos, and feel-good energy to fuel the bounce back power of resiliency, as told through the more ups and downs of the daughter, Daniella Cracknell.
In early reviews, here's what the industry is saying ...
INDUSTRY CHATTER
“Cracknell - a blend of Cheryl Strayed meets Helen Fielding in an Elizabeth teaching moment."
—Longtime OPRAH producer Shantel Klinger—
“There is something pleasantly, innocently voyeuristic about reading an epistolary novel," says Book Riot. Adding, "They give you the feeling of stumbling on a box of letters left in an attic, but there are no consequences or hurt feelings if you read them. Actually, the author prefers that you read them.”
EARLY REVIEWS
“Cracknell emerges as a resilient, sprightly, and engaging character ... a dream read!”
—MARY, Test Reader, English Professor, Avid Book Clubber, NY—