I am looking for suggestions of novels where a couple falls in love through letter writing. This could be a strictly epistolary novel that only features letters or a more classic novel where letter writing features very prominently.
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*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society* by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer is entirely epistolary, beautifully written, and while the couple does meet in person before getting together, their letters create a beautiful friendship and clear connection first.
*The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows* by Olivia Waite is primarily regular narrative, but while the couple meets in person first, I’d say they fall in love through the letters sent back and forth after their first meeting.
[‘Possession’](https://www.waterstones.com/book/possession/a-s-byatt/9780099800408) by A.S. Byatt centres around a mystery relationship conducted through letters (and the efforts of two scholars to find all of the letters and piece together what happened) 🙂
This Is How You Lose the Time War! Told through unconventional letters, but letters all the same. Short and sweet read.
An older one :
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.
Plus Dear Enemy by Jean Webster!
If you’re not opposed to incorporated art, the Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock are really great.
If you want non-fiction, you can read the letters Elizabeth and Robert Browning wrote to each other.
Love Rosie by Cecelia Ahern.
Divine rivals is the most recent that comes to mind
Where rainbows end by Cecelia Ahem. Is tells the story from kids to adults in form of letters/messages exchanges
Meet Me in the Margins is a relationship built on notes left in an unfinished book one of the MC’s is writing.