Dear Everyone

<p>In 1963 twenty-two-year-old Martha McCaffray set sail for Florence Italy to study painting and live a year entirely for herself. In sixty letters home she chronicled her days of art travel friendship and freedom - a brief window when she chose passion over expectation. Within a year of her return she was a wife a mother and a woman who unbeknownst to her at the time would set her paintbrush down for good.</p><p>Sixty years later those letters are unearthed and entwined with a modern narrative of grief ambition and self-discovery through womanhood. What begins as a portrait of a young woman's bold year abroad becomes something more - a mirror reflecting the timeless struggle between societal expectation and personal truth.</p><p><em>Dear Everyone</em> is a work of narrative nonfiction that braids Martha's mid-century letters with a contemporary voice reckoning with the same questions: What does it mean to choose yourself? And what is lost when you don't?</p><p>For readers of <em>Everything I Know About Love</em> by Dolly Alderton and <em>The Middle Place</em> by Kelly Corrigan this is a story for every woman caught between who she is and who she's expected to be.</p>