Description
| Product ID: | 9780008311209 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Love in the Blitz |
| Subtitle: | The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War |
| Authors: | Author: Eileen Alexander |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Diaries, letters and journals, Memoirs, Military history, Second World War, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, Military history, Second World War, England, Germany, English, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 1960 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘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 ‘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.’ |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-30 |
