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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters Main Edition
Contributor(s): Barker, Chris (Author), Moore, Bessie (Author), Garfield, Simon (Editor)
ISBN: 1782115676     ISBN-13: 9781782115670
Publisher: Canongate Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - World War Ii
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals
Dewey: 940.530
LCCN: 2014472940
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.55 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Garfield, Simon: - Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.comBarker, Chris: - 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.Moore, Bessie: - Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker's at the Post Office, before working at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to translate intercepted German radio messages. She was thirty when twenty-nine-year-old Chris first wrote from North Africa.