Yours Always: Letters of Longing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781785781681)

Love letters are potent. They breathe. They speak. They can arouse, comfort, captivate. They can also cut deep.

The powerful, deeply personal letters collected here reveal the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'grown with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference' and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a 'terrible' passion.

Through the letters of literary icons Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Elizabeth Burton and statesmen Henry VIII and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of such illustrious figures.

Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love.

Author: Eleanor Bass
ISBN-10: 1785781685
ISBN-13: 9781785781681
Publisher: Icon Books
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2017 pg. 75

About the Author
Eleanor Bass is a freelance researcher and writer. Having previously read Theology at the University of Cambridge, she obtained her doctorate in English Literature from King's College London in 2015.