{"product_id":"love-in-the-blitz","title":"Love in the Blitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWilliam Boyd,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWith the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003enot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e getting married.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you \u0026amp; started reading them in chronological order?’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Eileen wrote in 1941. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘I think they’d say “This girl never lived till she loved” – and it would be true, darling.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53130657825101,"sku":"ZW-KJY2-FVHD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0783\/9147\/6557\/files\/16534_PriceBreak_16669.jpg?v=1767706913","url":"https:\/\/thebookbus.co.uk\/products\/love-in-the-blitz","provider":"The Book Bus","version":"1.0","type":"link"}