Love in the Blitz The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War

'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced … Splendid'William Boyd, GuardianWith the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz.Eileen Alexander fell in love amidst the falling of bombs, finding a quotation from poetry at every turn. Graduating from Cambridge in 1939, she had just been injured in a car crash (the man she had a soft spot for was driving) and had firm ambitions of studying further, making herself useful and absolutely not getting married.Her letters offer a love story and a unique snapshot of the home front, as well as resurrecting the voice of a profoundly funny writer.'I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you & started reading them in chronological order?' Eileen wrote in 1941. 'I think they'd say "This girl never lived till she loved" - and it would be true, darling.'

ISBN:	9780008311247
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:	William Collins
Published date:	27 May 2021
DEWEY:	942.1084092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	496 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	320g
Height:	196mm
Width:	496mm
Spine width:	31mm

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