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Joy Street: A Wartime Romance in Letters
by Mirren Barford
from Little, Brown

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• Love during the second world war
  Told solely in letters between the protagonists with the minimum of commentary, this tells the affecting love story of Mirren Barford and Jock Lewes during the second world war. At the start she is just 19 and at Somerville, Oxford and meets Jock at a friend's wedding. The letters chart the beginning of their flirtatious friendship which deepens into passionate love.
  In some ways this is a similar trajectory to Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and the letters in Letters from a Lost Generation, with... more info

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