Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole (FIC Bro)

In 1912, poet Elspeth Dunn receives a letter from American college student David Graham.  At 24 Elspeth has never left her home on the Isle of Skye.  Over the years she and David correspond and their relationship develops from friendship into love.  When World War I erupts David, frustrated at the lack of American involvement, volunteers as an ambulance driver on the European front.  Elspeth can only wait and wonder what will happen.

In 1940 Edinburgh Elspeth's daughter Margaret has fallen in love with her old and dear friend Paul, now a pilot in the Royal Air Force.  Her mother is not in favor of a wartime romance but Margaret doesn't understand.  When a bomb rocks their home and letters long hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears.  Only a single letter remains to give Margaret a clue to her mother's past - and hers.

This book is told entirely in letter format.  Letters from Elspeth to David and David to Elspeth.  Letters from Margaret to Paul and those in return.  Letters from Elspeth to her mother, from Margaret to her uncle.  Surprisingly everyone is an excellent letter writer.  Sometimes I found it difficult to find any difference between the voices of the characters.  Educated Elspeth's voice was very similar to that of her brother.  Paul and Margaret sounded very much like Elspeth and David.

This book was a very quick read.  In spite of the similarity in the voices of all the characters I became caught up in the romance between David and Elspeth.  While the secret of Elspeth's past was relatively easy to figure out I kept reading to see how it would be revealed...and resolved.

This is the author's first book.  I look forward to more in the future.