Independent, irresistible Helen MacFarquhar is the proprietress of a bookstore in an idyllic seaside town in New England. Here, the happily divorced mother of a bright and lovable eleven-year-old girl corrects perfect strangers on their grammar, sells mysteries to die-hard history readers, and flirts with the town. And the town, utterly smitten with Helen's bewitching blend of sense and sensibility, flirts back. It's all perfectly innocent...until the morning an anonymous letter arrives- an ardent missive penned by an unknown lover. The fervor and mystery of the letter intrigue Helen, and it eventually touches her heart as she is swept up in a fiercely tender affair with a thoroughly unsensible and unsuitable suitor.
Sparkling and sophisticated, The Love Letter is a gloriously romantic ode to the seductions of old-fashioned courtship and modern love.