Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts by Rosanna Greenstreet

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day During a house move, a cardboard box belonging to my husband Matthew's grandparents came to light. Inside we found thousands of love letters sent between the Manchester Guardian journalist Gerard Fay and his wife Alice, during the second world war. They were jumbled up a…

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