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Love In The Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War

Alexander Eileen

9780008311216

BOOK DETAILS

Price: $34.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008311216
Published: April 2020

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'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, Guardian
With 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.'

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008311216
Published: April 2020

Number of pages: 496
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 38 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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