Lydia

Type designer Ed Austin is on a losing streak. Divorced, and with his daughter studying abroad, he has only an old dog for a companion. His world has contracted into something simple, solitary-and safe. But after acquiring a dozen handwritten letters forgotten in the barn of an old Maine farmhouse, Ed finds himself haunted by thoughts of a nineteenth-century woman named Lydia Starbird. At first he's enchanted by her penmanship, and then the life she describes in her letters-each addressed to a cruel husband who cannot read. When finally he encounters Lydia herself, he starts to question everything. Is she a ghost? A time traveler? Or the invention of a yearning soul? With precise attention to the subtleties of human emotion and vivid description of the natural world, Lydia tells a haunting tale of carrying on in the face of loss.

Author: Brian Willson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Three Islands Press
Published: 03/24/2013
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780962299438

About the Author
Willson, Brian: - Brian Willson grew up in Austin, Texas, in the 1950s and '60s. He bounced around the Austin music scene a while before snagging a Radio/TV/Film degree from The University of Texas in 1979. The following year he moved to coastal Maine, where he worked as a broadcast and print journalist for many years. Besides writing, Willson designs type, with a specialty in historical penmanship simulations. In his free time, he enjoys birding, hiking, cycling, and nature photography.