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Title: MY DEAR BESSIE
A LOVE STORY IN LETTERS
By: Chris Barker, Bessie Moore, Simon Garfield (Editor)
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £8.49


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ISBN 10: 1782115684
ISBN 13: 9781782115687
Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 5 February, 2015
Edition: Main
Pages: 240
Description: 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
Synopsis: AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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