Letters To My Husband
  • Published: 9 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473525047
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

Letters To My Husband

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9 Apr 2015
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15 Apr 2015
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Dear Mike, I can’t believe that it’s true. You wouldn’t do this to me. You promised.

A heart-wrenching and powerful novel about how much you can ever know about the people you love - perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, JoJo Moyes and Lisa Jewell.

'I read this last night in one big gulp . . . It's beautiful and sad, the characters so well-drawn, and the writing is gorgeous. I had to take a deep breath and let out a big sigh when I'd finished' Julie Cohen, Richard and Judy Book Club author

Originally published in hardback as Surrounded by Water

'An immensely powerful, and ultimately uplifting, debut novel' Katie Fforde

'Heartbreaking, insightful, gripping and beautifully crafted' Jane Wenham Jones
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Dear Mike, I can’t believe that it’s true. You wouldn’t do this to me. You promised.
Elizabeth knows that her husband is kind and good and that he loves her unconditionally. She knows she hasn’t been herself lately but that, even so, they are happy.

But Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down when Mike dies in a tragic drowning accident. Suddenly everything Elizabeth knows about her husband is thrown into doubt. Why would he sacrifice his own life, knowing he’d never see his wife again? And what exactly was he doing at the lake that night?

Elizabeth knows that writing to Mike won’t bring him back, but she needs to talk to him now more than ever . . .
How much can you ever know about the people you love?
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Originally published in hardback as Surrounded by Water
  • Published: 9 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473525047
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Stephanie Butland

Stephanie Butland lives near the sea in the North East of England. She writes in a studio at the bottom of her garden. For fun, she reads, knits, walks, and bakes, and is an occasional performance poet.

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Praise for Letters To My Husband

An immensely powerful, and ultimately uplifting, debut novel.

KATIE FFORDE

I thoroughly enjoyed this…I was completely immersed to the point it no longer seemed like I was reading but discovering the truth and lies of these brilliant characters.

LOUISE DOUGLAS, Richard & Judy-selected author of The Secrets Between Us

A moving exploration of grief and love and the darker depths that lie beneath the surface of a seemingly idyllic marriage.

Tamar Cohen, author of THE MISTRESS'S REVENGE

I read this last night in one big gulp...It's beautiful and sad, the characters so well-drawn, and the writing is gorgeous. I had to take a deep breath and let out a big sigh when I'd finished.

Julie Cohen

Heartbreaking, insightful, gripping and beautifully crafted. Stephanie Butland's astonishing debut stays with me still. I long to see what she writes next.

Jane Wenham Jones, author of Perfect Alibis and One Glass is Never Enough

Surrounded by Water is a moving exploration of grief and love and the darker depths that lie beneath the surface of a seemingly idyllic marriage

TAMAR COHEN, author of The Mistress's Revenge

An immensely powerful, and ultimately uplifting, debut novel

KATIE FFORDE

I read Surrounded by Water last night in one big gulp...It's beautiful and sad, the characters so well-drawn, and the writing is gorgeous. I had to take a deep breath and let out a big sigh when I'd finished.

JULIE COHEN

I thoroughly enjoyed this…I was completely immersed to the point it no longer seemed like I was reading but discovering the truth and lies of these brilliant characters.

LOUISE DOUGLAS, Richard & Judy-selected author of The Secrets Between Us
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