{"product_id":"9780008311247-love-in-the-blitz","title":"Love in the Blitz","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Woman in a World Turned Upside Down\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Boyd, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Boyd, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eWith the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz.\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eEileen 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 \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e getting married.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eHer letters offer a love story and a unique snapshot of the home front, as well as resurrecting the voice of a profoundly funny writer.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you \u0026amp; started reading them in chronological order?’\u003c\/em\u003e Eileen wrote in 1941. \u003cem\u003e‘I think they’d say “This girl never lived till she loved” – and it would be true, darling.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536431817078,"sku":"9780008311247","price":8.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27173151.jpg?v=1774288978","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780008311247-love-in-the-blitz","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}