My Dear Bessie A Love Story in Letters
- 5 Feb 2015
- 9781782115670
- £12.99
- 384 pp
- 130×198mm
- 5 Feb 2015
- 9781782115687
- £10.39
- 240 pp
In a few words
The wartime correspondence which first warmed people’s hearts in Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey
In a few words
The wartime correspondence which first warmed people’s hearts in Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey
Utterly wonderful
Nina Stibbe
author of LOVE, NINAThe modern reader is swept along in a gushing sea of yearning, lust, fear, regret and relentlessly candid emotion, and is constantly reminded of the enduring power of letters to transform ordinary lives
Utterly wonderful
Nina Stibbe
author of LOVE, NINAThe modern reader is swept along in a gushing sea of yearning, lust, fear, regret and relentlessly candid emotion, and is constantly reminded of the enduring power of letters to transform ordinary lives
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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4
‘Utterly wonderful’ NINA STIBBE, author of Love, Nina
Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.
In September 1943, Chris Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa when he decided to brighten the long days of war by writing to old friends. One of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. The unexpected warmth of Bessie’s reply changed their lives forever. Crossing continents and years, their funny, affectionate and intensely personal letters are a remarkable portrait of a love played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. Above all, their story is a stirring example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.
More about
the book
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4
‘Utterly wonderful’ NINA STIBBE, author of Love, Nina
Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.
In September 1943, Chris Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa when he decided to brighten the long days of war by writing to old friends. One of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. The unexpected warmth of Bessie’s reply changed their lives forever. Crossing continents and years, their funny, affectionate and intensely personal letters are a remarkable portrait of a love played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. Above all, their story is a stirring example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.
An immensely affecting set of letters
A record - spontaneous, immediate and unassuming - of the implacable triumph of love
John Carey
Sunday TimesThese letters are magnificent
Barker and Moore start to fall in love by letter . . . And what a sweaty, lusty love it turns out to be
An immensely affecting set of letters
A record - spontaneous, immediate and unassuming - of the implacable triumph of love
John Carey
Sunday TimesThese letters are magnificent
Barker and Moore start to fall in love by letter . . . And what a sweaty, lusty love it turns out to be
