The Hatbox Letters by Beth Powning
A luminescent debut novel following one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewal
In her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents' eighteenth-century Connecticut house. Kate remembers the sense of permanence and refuge that she felt in her grandparents' apple-scented world, as well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate's eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood, becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of her unraveled life.Beth Powning was born and raised in a small New England village where her family had resided since the 1790s. She and her husband, Peter Powning, relocated to Canada in 1972 and bought a farm in New Brunswick in the 1870s, where they started a pottery business. Flowers for Canadian Gardens (authored by childhood friend Bob Osborne) was published by Beth Powning in 1995. In Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life, she found her voice. Five publications followed over the next fifteen years: Northern Trees and Shrubs, another collection of pictures; Shadow Child and Edge Seasons, two nonfiction works; and The Hatbox Letters, The Sea Captain's Wife, and A Measure of Light, three bestselling novels.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780676976403 |
| ISBN 10 | 0676976409 |
| Title | The Hatbox Letters |
| Author | Beth Powning |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Canada |
| Year published | 2005-06-14 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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