The new issue of Country Living includes a long feature - four handsomely designed pages - about handwritten letters (including unsent ones) by Caroline Atkins, author of What a Hazard a Letter is. ‘Letters prove to us that once we cared’, Caroline (a regular contributor to the magazine) quotes Janet Malcolm as saying: a truth she confirmed while writing What a Hazard. ‘Make every word count’, is her parting advice. ‘And don’t leave them unsent.’