"Miss Anstruther's Letters" by Rose Macaulay (1942).

[@karenpollak8722]

Thank you for such a wonderful reading of such sorrow.

[@thenewplace8636]

Thanks for this. I came upon this in a roundabout way through Erik Larson's "The Splendid and the Vile." What I can say is that it is not only heartbreaking but it's extremely accurate. I am approaching the one-year anniversary of losing my own flat to a fire... and losing all of my books. This is truly what's it's like.

[@johnhaggerty4396]

This is a find: I did not really expect anyone reading from Rose Macaulay on KZbin, far less a story I am unfamiliar with. For the second time I am reading Rose's *Last Letters To A Friend 1952-1958* and I have two of her novels in new paperback editions. And I intend to reread the biography of Rose by Sarah LeFanu after which I shall turn again to *The Towers of Trebizond*.