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Letters from Kettlemere
A Novel in Four Seasons and Forty Postcards
Told through forty unsent letters discovered behind a stone lintel, two estranged botanists reconstruct a vanished upland orchard and the quiet wager that divided their youth.
"Spare, intimate, and deeply humane — every page feels handwritten by lamplight."
[ Quarterly Fiction Journal ]
SAMPLE PAGES & READING NOTES
Opening Letter — 14 October
If you come up the lane after the first frost, bring the iron key from the potting shed; the latch on the south gate still lifts half an inch higher than anyone expects.
All week I have been numbering the late-keeping trees along the drystone wall. Twelve remain from your grandfather’s grafting notebook, though none bear the names we gave them that summer.
