When Mattie is given the letters by a guest at the hotel in which she has asummer job she thinks that the giver is simply upset. But the next day when thewoman ... » 

When Mattie is given the letters by a guest at the hotel in which she has asummer job she thinks that the giver is simply upset. But the next day when thewoman is found drowned in Big Moose Lake Mattie has to decide if she will readthe letters or burn them as the woman requested. But Mattie has problemsenough of her own as she is growing up and trying to decide on her future. Herdesire to be a writer and her dreams of life outside the small rural communityin which she has always lived are beginning to overwhelm her. Will Mattie makeit away from home? Will she leave the family and boyfriend who both love andsmother her? Will she be like her friend and settle to married life or like herother friend and mentor the poet Ms Wilcox. Slowly the two stories merge to oneamazing conclusion as Mattie finds the courage to make very importantdecisions. Set in 1906 and built around the real life murder of a young womanin a popular holiday resort this novel is touching surprising moving andcompelling. «