12th February, 2025 in Recommended Reads

Love and Conductivity

“How uncommon it really was to find intellectual companionship and perfect sympathy. If she didn’t realize the rarity of it before, she knew it now. And how slender the thread of chance that brought them together. How wide the distance keeping them apart.” The novel, Love and Conductivity, by Erin Nieto explores a budding relationship in a time of simplicity and hardship in communication, namely letters. Beginning in 1918 and years after, the main characters, Eleanor Morgan and Erwin Phipps, both with their own evolving careers and personal desires, develop a rare connection following a chance encounter that leads us through the highs and lows that distance can place on any passion. Erin Nieto’s use of vivid language, in the context of the time period, carries us into the novel’s world, while captivating us to the central romance.