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In semi-rural New Brunswick, Kate Harding, a young widow struggles to come to terms with her solitary life in the rambling Victorian house she shared until recently with her husband and children . . . 

A luminescent and beautifully moving debut novel, The Hatbox Letters follows one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewal reminding its readers of the essential links and threads that bind family and loved ones.

“The writing is highly sensual, painterly even, vividly portraying the natural world and its changing seasons.  Powning’s subject here is no less than the relationship of life and death, and she engages it with rigour and grace.” -- Quill & Quire