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Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down

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By (author): Eileen Alexander

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 theyd say This girl never lived till she loved and it would be true, darling.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 27 May 2021
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008311247

About Eileen Alexander

Eileen Alexander was born in Cairo and grew up in a cosmopolitan Jewish family before moving to Cambridge as a student. She graduated from Girton College with a first-class degree in English in 1939 and worked during the Second World War for the civil service in the Air Ministry. Eileen went on to be a teacher writer and translator including translating some of Georges Simenons works.

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