Letters from the Past (by Erica James)

I have liked all the novels I’ve read by Erica James over the past twenty years or so, and am always pleased when I learn that she’s published a new one.  I put ‘Letters from the Past’ on my wishlist as soon as it was out in paperback, and was very pleased to receive a copy for my birthday a couple of months ago.

Most of the story is set in 1962. First we meet Evelyn, a woman who is probably in her early forties, with twin nineteen-year-old children whom she’s hoping to hear from soon. We qu...