A heartfelt wartime love story told through letters between Chris Barker, a soldier in North Africa, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter in London.
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A heartfelt wartime love story told through letters between Chris Barker, a soldier in North Africa, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter in London.
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Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker's at the Post Office, before working at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to translate intercepted German radio messages. She was thirty when twenty-nine-year-old Chris first wrote from North Africa. Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including To the Letter, On the Map, and Just My Type
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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Minor references to romantic longing; no explicit scenes depicted.
Violence & gore
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Brief mentions of war dangers; no graphic violence described.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No occult themes present.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Minor references to wartime context and societal norms of the era.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Brief mentions of wartime hardship and separation struggles.
Other
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