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Biographical note
Mandy Kirkby is an editor and author, whose work includes The Language of Flowers: a Miscellany and Love Letters of the Great War.
Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed bestselling author, poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Women's Prize; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Women's Prize; The Betrayal, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; Mourning Ruby, House of Orphans, Counting the Stars. Her 2014 novel The Lie is set during and just after the First World War.
[<i>Love Letters of the Great War</i>] gathers together the most moving, intimate and fascinating correspondence to and from soldiers fighting in the First World War
The Telegraph
Heartbreaking letters from the hell of the trenches . . . a moving collection
Daily Mail
The passions of war are universal: these letters reflect the constancy of gallantry, intimacy and grief
- Iain Finlayson, The Times
Touching and fascinating first-hand accounts . . . a brilliant collection, and a must-read for both young and old
The Press and Journal
<i>Love Letters of the Great War</i>, sensitively edited by Mandy Kirkby and with an insightful foreword by Helen Dunmore, is more than a touching anthology. It shows that letters gave men the chance to reflect on their transformation into soldiers, allowed absent husbands and fathers to participate in family life, formed a point of physical contact between separated lovers . . . and, in spite of the censors, provided a forum for sexual fantasy
- Kate McLoughlin, TLS
Emotive and poignant
The Sunday Post
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Mandy Kirkby is an editor and author, whose work includes The Language of Flowers: a Miscellany and Love Letters of the Great War.
Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed bestselling author, poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Women's Prize; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Women's Prize; The Betrayal, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; Mourning Ruby, House of Orphans, Counting the Stars. Her 2014 novel The Lie is set during and just after the First World War.