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About this book
'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" â and it would be true, darling.'
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Oswyn Murray
- Historical Introduction by David Crane
- 1 Drumnadrochit, summer 1939
- September 1939âApril 1940
- 2 âNo time to sit on broodâ
- MayâSeptember 1940
- 3 My Young Fellow
- SeptemberâDecember 1940
- 4 Blitz
- JanuaryâMarch 1941
- 5 Intentions
- MarchâSeptember 1941
- 6 A Rill Civil Servant
- SeptemberâDecember 1941
- 7 Your Intended
- JanuaryâMay 1942
- 8 Separation
- MayâDecember 1942
- 9 Limbo
- January 1943âMarch 1944
- 10 The Long Wait
- April 1944âMarch 1946
- 11 Twin Compasses
- Postscript
- Dramatis Personae
- Picture Section
- About the Author
- About the Publisher
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