Looking Glass Friends: A Novel Inspired by Real Love Letters

15-times award-winning love story (inspired by real letters)
＂This novel features an original and fascinating premise... Readers will be compelled to keep reading until the very end.＂ Booklife by Publishers Weekly.

When our souls fall in love before our bodies meet...
LOOKING GLASS FRIENDS is a story about finding your soul’s reflection, the ideal person put on this earth just for you. But what if you are already married? What if you have kids? This quest for happiness lies at the heart of all our lives. Many of us face the choice that turns the pages of this story. Many of us know that our life will be utterly different in twenty years depending on the choice we make today. It is an intersection that changes everything forever. This award-winning novel seeks to show that what seems insurmountable can be done...and should be done. Discover its poetry and wisdom for yourself.

2018 Hollywood Book Festival WINNER
2018 Great Northwest Book Festival WINNER
2018 Beach Book Festival WINNER
2017 New York Book Festival WINNER
2017 Los Angeles Book Festival WINNER
2017 London Book Festival Runner-up
2017 Pacific Book Awards Finalist
2017 BookVana Award Finalist
2017 Readers’ Favorite Finalist
2018 Paris Book Festival Honorable Mention
2018 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
2017 New England Book Festival Honorable Mention
2017 Florida Book Festival Honorable Mention
2017 Southern California Book Festival Honorable Mention
2017 Great Midwest Book Festival Honorable Mention

ELLIE & NEIL FELL IN LOVE over email, discussing Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. Neither remembered the other’s face clearly. Both were married already. And she had a five-year-old son. But in the span of a few letters each discovered his soul’s mirror-image. So how could they live apart?

Woven with poetry and philosophy this is a story about the nature of love, its enchantment or curse, and the heartbreaking question: Can a mother secure her child’s happiness by sacrificing hers?

Tal Boldo likes to write under pseudonyms that relate to her stories. E. L. Neve is a clue to two identities (in honor of the letters that inspired Looking Glass Friends.) The novel won first place in the romance category of the Los Angeles Book Festival, 2017. For her middle grade fantasy, The Sound & The Echoes, she chose the pen name, Dew Pellucid. The novel was a Juvenile Fiction Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards (2013) and received an Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles Book Festival (2012).