On 17 February 2002 a friend of mine found a bottle washed up on a beach in Kent, on the Isle of Sheppey. It contained a curl of hair, and a love letter in French. My friend sent me the letter to translate, and I decided to try and find the author. I spent the next couple of years on this quest, and this book is the story of my search for the unknown woman.
It is all true.
"I love a good quest and could not speak to anyone until I'd finished Letter in the Bottle. It's a lucid exposition of the simultaneous equation of love and pain that is being a mother, and moving but not remotely mawkish. Karen Liebreich has bottled this letter perfectly."
Rachel Johnson, author of The Mummy Diaries
"This is a curious book about curiosity ... a book which is as haunting as it is elegantly written."