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23%OFFChris Barker - My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters - 9781782115670 - V9781782115670
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

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Description for My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Garfield, Simon. Num Pages: 384 pages, with b&w integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782115670
SKU
V9781782115670
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-42

About Chris Barker
Chris Barker joined the Post Office at fourteen, working as a messenger boy and then as a counter clerk, becoming an active trade union member. He served as a signalman in North Africa during the Second World War. Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker's at the Post Office, before working at the Foreign Office, using her training in ... Read more

Reviews for My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters
Utterly wonderful
NINA STIBBE

author of LOVE, NINA

The 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

Daily Telegraph

An immensely affecting set ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters


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