The Wrong Envelope - Liz Treacher #LoveBooksGroupTours

Blurb

Summer 1920. Two worlds are about to collide. Evie Brunton loves her job. Twice a day, she spins along the narrow lanes of Devon on her bicycle, delivering letters from a heavy post bag. When the flamboyant London artist, Bernard Cavalier, drops like a meteor into her sleepy village, everything changes. Bernard is supposed to be painting for an important exhibition, but the countryside has its own charms, in particular his young post lady…Light and witty, and full of twists and turns, The Wrong Envelope is a charming romantic comedy. It captures the spirit of another age – when letters could change lives. 

Review

I absolutely loved this book. If you want to be transported back to an age where the post was delivered three times a day!; there was no social media and sending a message urgently meant using a telegram then this is the book for you.

We first meet Evie on a train with her friend Cassie. I came to dislike Cassie rather a lot - she in my eyes was a schadenfreude (to put it politely!) but you can make your own mind up about her. Evie is returning home to her Devon village where she is the post lady. At this point you can just put your feet up and relax with the wonderful evocative language of day to day life in a village in the 1920s.

Don't think this is a slow book though - once the story passes the scene setting phase it really takes off and I couldn't read it fast enough. Will Evie be wooed by Bernard or are they destined to never be together. It reminded me of a Jane Austen novel and a Shakespearean comedy all at once.

Language of course is evolving all the time. It made me laugh when Bernard tells Evie "she is hot" - in today's parlance it would mean something entirely different from the innocent comment that meant she was actually very hot, due to the heat! I just loved the social history aspects of this book. Some of the events described in the book that occurred after World War I made me so annoyed. However these are now more real and understandable to me after reading this book.

I really don't want to write anymore as you need to just discover the book for yourself. Inspired by a letter sent to the author's Grandmother at the time of the First Word War the book is such a treasure. I am so disappointed to finish it, but - I have the sequel "The Wrong Direction" to read, which I shall review as part of the Book Tour on 28th May.

I'm giving this book five out of five stars. My thanks to Love Books Group Tours for my copy of the book for review and to Liz Treacher who even packaged it in brown paper and string and included a copy of the letter from the cover - it was just magical to open. 

Biography

Liz is a writer, a Creative Writing teacher and an Art photographer. She lives in the Highlands of Scotland with a view of the sea. Her love of images influences her writing. 

Her debut novel, 'The Wrong Envelope', is a romantic comedy, set in 1920 in Devon, England. It tells the story of Bernard, an impulsive artist and Evie, his beautiful post lady. You can watch the trailer on this page, under 'Videos'. Light and witty, and full of twists and turns, 'The Wrong Envelope' captures the spirit of another age - when letters could change lives.

The sequel, 'The Wrong Direction', follows Evie and Bernard to London, and charts their further adventures in Mayfair's high society. Wild parties, flirtatious models, jealous friends - Bernard and Evie must negotiate many twists and turns if they are to hold on to each other.

For more information visit: https://www.liztreacher.com

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