Copyright © 2003 by Kathleen Hughes

All rights reserved

First published as a Norton paperback 2004

For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company,
Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110

Book design by JAM Design

Production manager: Anna Oler

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hughes, Kathleen, 1972–

Dear Mrs. Lindbergh : a novel / Kathleen Hughes.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-393-05785-2

1. Parent and adult child—Fiction. 2. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow,
1906– —Correspondence—Fiction. 3. Missing persons—Fiction.
4. Air pilots—Fiction. 5. Iowa—Fiction. I. Title: Dear
Mistress Lindbergh. II. Title.

PS3608.U558D43 2003

813’.6—dc21

2003013972

ISBN 0-393-32622-5 pbk.

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110

www.wwnorton.com

W. W. Norton & Company Ltd.

Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0