My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters - Chris Barker, Bessie Moore
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters - Chris Barker, Bessie Moore AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I shall think…
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters - Chris Barker, Bessie Moore
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. I have been thinking of you.
One of these was Bessie Moore, a former work colleague. 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. 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