This novel is about a woman in New York City, Cassie, who begins a physical correspondence with her older sister Sid, who lives in Singapore. It begins as a thoughtful way for the two to keep in touch, as they live very different lives. Sid was inspired by old letters she found when visiting her grandparents and issued a challenge to her sister to reconnect through physical letters.
Sid had a child when she was quite young, River, and he is now an adult, taking a gap year before he goes on to further education. She has remarried a man who leads a busy life as an international businessman, and they have a young child Lulu.
Cassie is married to Leo, and has twin toddlers, Quinn and Joey. They live in a small apartment in New York City. Cassie is vaguely dissatisfied with her life. She finds the apartment confining, and even though she and her sons go out often, the hassles of getting around are tiresome.
The letter writing experiment goes well, and Cassie decides to keep copies of them online in a private blog, just for her to look back on. When a technical glitch makes the blog public, Cassie isn't aware until she realizes that they've gone viral and become the center of a social media discussion. Some of what they've written is very personal, and Cassie has to try to stem the leak, and find ways to tell the two people most important to her, Leo and Sid.
I enjoyed the sisters relationship, and how they managed to keep the connection despite the distance between them. I also found it interesting to see how they dealt with the leak and made it part of the conversation in a wider, more inclusive way.

I found this to not simply be a good story but also shed light not only on sister relationships but family dynamics more broadly.

I am catching up on books because of an illness so am going off of what I remember and a few notes I made at the time. My apologies for the brevity.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to go through with this. I might come back someday.

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book was an all round good read, I have had it sitting on my virtual Netgalley shelf forever and decided to start reading. I could relate to the 2 characters, who were sisters, I laughed and cried with them. I enjoyed the book and it passed an afternoon and evening during lockdown.

The Sunday sisters might have grown apart a bit - Cassie being an exhausted mom of 3-year-old twins and Sid is living far away in Singapore. So they decide to be the pen-pals (the old-fashioned, letter way). And they are honest and the mail exchange does bring them much more together - yet life has a way to come into their lives. Yet they find the sweet release in their sharing about their issues. Yet - can anything private ever stay private?

I like the concept of honest communication - and the old-fashioned letters truly do have a charm about them (having stored my own letter communication for years). In the internet time we truly could use more of risky, messy, unpredictable and open communications.
Yet - the characters are very clichey. Cassie, the narrator, is just selfish brat in my eyes. Her husband Leo is the perennial good guy, her sister Sid is the forever kind and beautiful older sister (yet might be there some cattiness in Cass' s true feelings about her sister?) and so on and so on.
Cassie got away with just a pat on the wrist and with everything about her life being more glittery and richer at the end. Such an easy way does not bring the much needed growth and maturing she certainly needs.

This novel is about two adult sisters, one who lives in New York and one who lives in Singapore, who decide to start sending each other letters in the mail to keep in touch, and end up pouring their hearts out. This wouldn't be a problem except that the sister whose point of view the book is from, Cassie, starts posting the letters on a private blog just to archive them all, but accidentally they become public which creates complications. Not entirely believable in parts, but it was a cute book.

Emotional, smart and all around good read. I connected with both characters and laughed and cried with them. Nothing is better than reading a relationship book to look at your own relationships. found this enjoyable. a great beach read

After reading this book I still wonder about a lot of things. I do think there was an important thing that was not mentioned in the story and because of that a big part of it is not possible. Or am I wrong?
I also think that you do not discuss those issues in a letter to a sister who lives miles away from you and you have to wait a long time before you get an answer back. I would say you wanted to offload right away and get some feedback.
It was all a bit to fake to me. I do understand that Cassie maybe is a rahter common name but Sid is not. So why did nobody ask any questions?
I admit there were some beautiful parts but overall I did not really enjoy it.

This book was the perfect summer read for a lazy day at the pool! I literally devoured this book!

At first, I found Cassie to be annoying and whiny. As she became more and more honest and vulnerable, I became her cheerleader.

You could just feel Cassie's anticipation of Sid's letters and the bid that reforms between these two sisters is beautiful and exciting.

When her blog accidentally goes public and she's left doing damage control, I could not put the book down! I was desperate for everything to work out.

I really loved this book!

Letter writing is like a hidden piece of history that has faded into the black of the current technology. That is what initially sparked my interest in this book. It is also a novel of love, family and just trying to do the best you can. I think I was rooting for Cass from page 1, without knowing why. She has the personality that makes her very relatable to most moms out there and has a witty personality to boot. While she has some flaws, it appears to her that her sister, Sid, has none. They decide to take on writing letters for a year and it helps bring their bond to an even greater level. I think it also gives Cass a new and happier outlook on her life.

I recommend this for any chic lit reader. You learn so much about both of these women and their inner circles to make you want to turn your own lives around. I was laughing and crying throughout most of the book and at times, doing the face palm at some of Cass' not-so-good moments. Incredible read and I can't wait for more from Lisa Beasley!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This was a mixed bag for me. Some things I loved and some not so much. Overall, a rather nice read.

This is the story of sisters, Cassie and Sid. Cassie lives in New York while her older sister Sid lives in Singapore. Sid has the idea that the two should write letters to each other instead of e-mails, iChat's, etc. The two sisters share a lot of themselves with each other and everything is going well until one of the sisters realize the letters have been made public. This is a sweet book, it started out a little slow but picked up more towards the middle.

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