Summary

“A true Canadian story ... In a time when the divorce rate is rising we should all read these letters — and be inspired.” Toronto Star
“Women libbers have much to learn ... Margaret Greene proves the premise in Love Letters to Baruch.” Calgary Herald

“When a man and woman live closely together, the only danger to their love lies in the unknown depths of the spirit where strange things are stowed away and hardly ever come to the surface in conversation.”
So wrote Margaret Lawrence Greene to Benedict Greene, the man she loved, in a series of passionate and intense love letters through which she hoped to make a “spiritual map” of herself for him. A well-known Canadian journalist and crusader for women’s rights in the 30s, Margaret Lawrence was also a Roman Catholic convert in love with a Jew — before the age of ecumenism. For five lonely and agonizing years their religious differences separated them. The events which finally brought them together, the private conflicts they overcame, are revealed in letters that cannot help but restore readers’ belief that love can and will endure.