The second in this series I've listened to, it is a collection of letters around a central theme, in this case, mothers. I thought this was marginally less sucessful than the collection on love. The idea springs from the "Letters of Note" project, which aims to encourage the art of letter writing in an age when it is diminishing by showing great examples from the past and present. They were all introduced so that you knew who the writer and recipeient were, their relationship and the date that it was written. The thing that, to me, made this less successful was the general similarity in the letters. A lot from a mother to their unborn or young child, attempting to offer advice. I couldn't imaging myself writing some of these, or understanding the author who did. It tended to be a bit too black and white, too much blind love, not enough of the shades of grey that I am dsure fill a lot of the space in every parent/child relationship.
All well read and the introductory notes were good, but it failed to take flight for me. ( )