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Old 06-11-2014, 03:22 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl View Post
I am reading the book in parallel with a collection of her poems and prose, Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After edited by Mark Bostridge (who started as a research assistant for her daughter and became a biographer and recognized authority on Vera Brittain)... The prose is from articles that she wrote mostly after the war. There are also loads of great photographs interspersed throughout.

I liked this news article by Mark Bostridge. It is about the process she went through to develop Testament of Youth and the accuracy of the text compared to her sources. Apparently she stopped keeping a diary after 1917 and the chronology gets a little fuzzy and events embellished a little for their emotional impact.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...ardianreview18

I am nearly 50% complete and for some reason am so captivated that I feel a bit like Virginia Woolf that I can't put the book down. I have this restless desire to keep reading!
Thank you for the links, Bookworm_Girl. I'll be sure to look them up.
I am at page 380 now and find myself more and more glued to this book.
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