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Words from the Suitcase uncovers the vibrant, poignant and greatly thorough wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, certain to appeal to supporters of Roald Dahl's Love from Guy, Sheila Hancock's Pass up Carter's Warfare or Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. 'I still have that continuing fear of something happening to me before I see you again, and before I can tell you myself just how much and how often I've realised during the last few months that I love you completely and the exclusion of all others. Understand that, because if there wasn't you, my darling Mary, the earth would appear very bare and meaningless.' Mary was only 21 when she fulfilled and fell in love with the privately educated 19-year-old David in 1938. Their affair was excited, and in a golf swing of disgust at their category separate and the growing climb of fascism and the Nazi party in European countries, they joined up with the Communist Party. These letters reveal their brains and thoughtfulness, details of their lives working as a secretary at Bletchley Recreation area and as a officer in action on the far side of the world, their matrimony against the needs of David's parents, their sexual desire and longing, and Mary's connection with bringing up a small baby together. David was to pass away in India five years after their reaching, though his words continued to attain Mary long following the event. In the centre this is actually the story of a brief but rich, worthwhile and colourful love, written with vivacity and credibility. Additionally it is the story of an dad that Rosheen Finnigan never understood and a remarkable social history, utterly unique in the informing.
