DAMN THIS WAR (PB)

The love story of Zippa and Tony is nothing without the context of the Second World War. The war introduced them when they met as blackout wardens in London. It sharpened their hunger for each other through long absences. It pressed them into marriage and whispered the urgent question of a baby. To which Tony, thinking of the war, replied maybe not; and Zippa, thinking of the war, said yes. Decades later, their daughter Julie discovered their letters and began to create a portrait of her parents and their relationship that was completely unfamiliar to her.