Letters to the End of Love

Overview

Three stories, three secrets, and three marriages are the focus of this brilliantly written and literary debut novel. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness. On Australia’s west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship. In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes letters to the love of his life, a German artist he lived with in Vienna during the 1930s. The simple domestic lives of these three couples are set against conversations about intimacy, art, war, and loss. Told in a series of unforgettable letters, this is a novel about love and what it means when it might be coming to an end.

Author Biography

Yvette Walker is a bookseller and a writer whose short story "Dear Reader" won the HQ Magazine National Short Story Competition. She is also the recipient of the Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction and spent time at Varuna, the Writers' House, in Australia.