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

By (author) Eileen Alexander

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â€˜Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational â€¦ Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense â€¦ This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced â€¦ Splendidâ€™ 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. â€˜I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you & started reading them in chronological order?â€™ Eileen wrote in 1941. â€˜I think theyâ€™d say â€œThis girl never lived till she lovedâ€ â€“ and it would be true, darling.â€™