Epistolary & Bookshop Fiction: Letters, Mystery and Slow-Burn Romance
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An epistolary novel is a story told through letters, diaries or other documents. Simran Mehta's Ink Between Us pushes the form as far as it goes: a book found on a forgotten shelf in a nameless bookstore, with no author, no barcode and no publisher, holding only letters addressed to You.
Love Beyond The Glass belongs on the same shelf for a different reason. It is set in an antique shop that only opens at night, where a student falls for a ghost anchored to a mirror since 1923. Both are slow-burn romances built around a strange object and the person it was left for.
Novels in this topic
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Ink Between Us
A book with no author, no barcode, no publisher — containing only letters addressed to You.
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Love Beyond The Glass
An antique shop that only opens at night. A seamstress trapped in a mirror since 1923. A love that the shop intends to feed on.
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Epistolary & bookshop fiction: questions readers ask
What is an epistolary novel?
An epistolary novel is a book told through letters, and sometimes diary entries, emails or other documents. Ink Between Us is epistolary: it has no chapters, only letters addressed to You.
Which book here should I start with?
Start with Ink Between Us if you want a letters-only mystery romance, or Love Beyond The Glass if you prefer a ghost love story set in a haunted shop.
Where can I find more epistolary fiction?
See the best epistolary novels list, the guide to writing a letter to your future love, and the list of books set in bookshops.