Finished Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop. This is a review copy; it comes out February 16.
This is an incredibly short book (126 pages in my copy; Amazon says it's 160 pages) and is a sweet, sad story told in one long letter.
Laura's teenage daughter, Elizabeth, has run off the night before her 15th birthday. When Laura was Elizabeth's age, she swore that she wouldn't be like her own mother and that she would be kind and understanding and would let her daughter live her own life. Like most people who make that promise as teenagers, it hasn't quite worked out that way.
So while waiting for Elizabeth to return, Laura writes a letter telling about her own teenage years and about the things that sent her to a Catholic boarding school and about the boy she loved.
This isn't necessarily easy to read (because who wants to revisit being a 15-year-old girl?) but it's definitely hard to put down.
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