Letters to the End of Love

Yvette Walker

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702251016
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

With the readability of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the literary grace of Colm Tóibin, this brilliant debut novel satisfies on all levels. Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness. On Australia's west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship. In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes letters to the love of his life, a German artist he lived with in Vienna during the 1930s. The simple domestic lives of these three couples are set against conversations about intimacy, art, war and loss. Told in a series of unforgettable letters, this is a novel about love and what it means when it might be coming to an end.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Author biography
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• The Cork Letters
• The Perth Letters
• The Bournemouth Letters
• The Cork Letters
• The Perth Letters
• The Bournemouth Letters
• The Cork Letters
• The Perth Letters
• The Bournemouth Letters
• The Cork Letters
• The Perth Letters
• The Bournemouth Letters
• The Cork Letters
• The Perth Letters
• The Bournemouth Letters
• Acknowledgments