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Season One
Diarmuid and Gráinne
A love that defied a king, told in letters that were never meant to be found.
The story
An old tale, told the way it happened
This is one of the oldest and best loved of all Irish stories, a tale of love, loyalty, pursuit and grief that has been told at firesides for a thousand years. In Letters from the Between, you read it as it happened, through the private letters of the ones who lived it. Nothing is explained to you from the outside. You simply open their post, and you are there.
Gráinne, a king's daughter, is promised to Fionn mac Cumhaill, the greatest warrior in Ireland, and a man far older than she is. At the feast meant to seal the match, she makes a different choice. What follows is a flight across the whole of the country, a love that will not be commanded, an old warrior who cannot let go, and a reckoning that waits at the end of it all like weather on the horizon.
Three voices
Read in their own hands
Gráinne
Writes to Síle
Her dearest confidante. Warm, quick, funny, frightened. The heart of it.
the heart of it
Diarmuid
Writes to Oscar
His foster-brother. Torn between the man he loves as a father and the woman he was never meant to want.
torn in two
Fionn
Writes to Caoilte
His oldest companion. A great man, undone by the one thing he cannot have.
a great man undone
Between their letters you will find other things that fell out of the story. A torn proclamation. A page from a diary. A map of where they were seen.
By now the whole of Tara knows I am gone.
Gráinne · the first letter
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The Welcome Pack
Your season begins here
Before the first letter arrives, a welcome pack finds your door. It is the start of everything, the little kit that carries you through the whole of Season One.
The Keeper's welcome letter
A warm hello, a first taste of the voice, and a note on what is coming
Your stamp book
A handmade booklet to hold the six collectible stamps that will arrive with each letter
The botanical stand
To hold the Irish Wild Flower cards that gather across the season, one from each chapter
The first botanical card
A hand-drawn flower from the land of the tale, to begin your collection.
Flowers have meaning and included is a leaflet to help you decipher each flowers
Then, month by month
Seven pieces of post across six months
The welcome pack arrives first. Then, on the first of each month, a new sealed letter finds your door, until the whole tale is told.
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Welcome Pack
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Letter One
2
Letter Two
3
Letter Three
4
Letter Four
5
Letter Five
6
Letter Six
Each letter is written, folded and sealed by hand. Each carries a collectible stamp for your book, and a keepsake or two that has fallen out of the story.
Then, month by month
Two ways to start
The letters are the same wherever they travel. The season price is the same for everyone. Postage is added at checkout by your delivery address, so what you see is exactly what you pay.
easiest way in
Postage added at checkout · by delivery address
Full cost across the whole season listed
(divide by 6 to get your monthly price, 2nd class to reduce your postage)
United Kingdom
+£16.80
Ireland & Europe
+£43.05
USA & Canada
+£59.50
Australia & New Zealand
+£66.85
Rest of World
+£66.85
Prices cover seven pieces of post: the welcome pack and six sealed letters, carried from Co. Down to your door.
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Everyone begins at the welcome pack
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Posted anywhere in the world
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Join by the 20th for a first-of-next-month start
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Cancel anytime on the monthly plan
For someone dear
Give a season as a gift
Enter your loved one's address as the delivery address, and the welcome pack, along with six months of wonder, will find them, beginning at the very beginning.
What comes after
The story does not end
When the tale is told, another chapter waits its turn. Season Two is not yet written, but when it comes, it will find its way to your door in the same slow, sealed way.
