Paperback
9781405934954
May 21, 2019
Michael Joseph
464 pages
Trade Paperback
9780718189150
July 16, 2018
Michael Joseph
336 pages
Hardback
9780718189143
July 15, 2018
Michael Joseph
336 pages
EBook
9781405934978
July 12, 2018
Penguin eBooks
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Lost letters have only one hope for survival. If they are caught between two worlds, with an unclear destination and no address of sender, the lucky ones are redirected to the Dead Letters Depot in East London for a final chance of redemption. Inside the damp-rising walls of a converted tea factory, letter detectives spend their days solving mysteries. Missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names: they are all culprits in the occurrence of missed birthdays, unknown test results, bruised hearts, unaccepted invitations, silenced confessions, unpaid bills and unanswered prayers. Instead of longed-for missives, disappointment floods post boxes from Land’s End to Dunnet Head. Hope fades a little more every day, when doorbells don’t chime and doormats don’t thud.
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