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Dear Heart

By Jenny Davis

Year staged: 2008

Opening night: 04/11/2008

Staged in: Act-IV@The Radisson, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Cast Size: Unknown

Synopsis

In 1988 Jenny Davis stumbled upon dozens of letters her aunt, Wynne, had written to her young soldier husband Mickey during World War II. Many of the letters remained unopened, still bearing the mark of their tragedy, a war office stamp, “No Trace”. This book is the story of an exceptional love as told by those letters written over a four year period from 1941 – first daily, then weekly. Wynne received only two replies and yet she poured out her hopes and reassurances and titbits of news from the home front. In 1945, at the end of the war, Wynne received both the unopened letters, and the news that Mickey had died in 1943 in Malaya, in a Japanese prisoners of war camp.

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Dear Heart

Publisher: Allen and Unwin

Year published: 1998

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