William Boyd,GuardianâHer 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 ⌠Splendidâ
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 getting married.not
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.
Eileen wrote in 1941.âI wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you & started reading them in chronological order?ââI think theyâd say âThis girl never lived till she lovedâ â and it would be true, darling.â