Love Lettering

The recap

Meg Mackworth has built a devoted following in New York for her hand-lettering, the beautiful custom script that adorns wedding programs, signs and planners. What her clients do not know is that she sometimes hides small coded messages in her designs. Reid Sutherland, a Wall Street numbers man, has noticed. He spotted a secret she tucked into a wedding program, and he wants to understand it. When he seeks her out, the meeting sets off an unlikely partnership between an artist who reads the world through its letterforms and a mathematician who reads it in patterns and figures. Kate Clayborn writes with rare tenderness and precision. Her New York is seen through its painted signs, shopfronts and faded lettering, so that even familiar streets feel newly discovered, and Meg's first-person voice moves at an unhurried stroll. The romance is slow, thoughtful and quietly swoony, and the novel is as much about creativity, friendship and change as it is about falling in love.