Description
After three years away, seventeen-year-old Brodie McKellon has returned to live with her eccentric grandmother above the last remaining Dead Letter Office - the place letters go when no one is left to claim them. Soon, Brodie is consumed by an unsolved mystery - the unclaimed letters of a group of teens who seemed to vanish many years ago - while also attempting to reconcile with her former best friends, Elliot and Levi. As the trio is drawn into the riddle of the dead letter writers, they discover that the past is never truly past, and that it's never too late for old wrongs to be put right . . .
Review
Brodie left town suddenly to attend boarding school at the end of primary school. Already in trouble with her friend Levi’s Dad, the policeman in the town, she is now suspected of stealing the town’s precious Adder stone. She left Levi on bad terms as a result, and never spoke to him in the three years that she was away.
Now, having been expelled from boarding school due to an “unfortunate” fire she is back, this time to live with her wonderful Nan in the post office building. This is the place where years ago Brodie, Levi and her bestie Elliot discovered the Dead Letter Office, and a series of mysterious connected letters. They had always wanted to discover the history of and the fate of the writers.
Will Brodie and Levi be able to rediscover their friendship, and maybe the fire that had already started to burn in their relationship? Will Elliot discover the secrets of his past, and maybe even who his father was?
This is a book full of issues like abandonment, petty crime, town secrets, romance, families in their many different forms, and friendship that burns deeper than anything else. It is a terrific novel that teen readers aged 13 to 17 will love.
