Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship

✍ Scribed by Woodsford, Frances

• Book ID: 109622849
• Publisher: Random House
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781409087571

✦ Synopsis

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower in New York. Frances Woodsford and Paul Bigelow never met, yet their epistolary friendship was her lifeline. We follow Frances's trials with her ghastly boss Mr Bond; the hilarious weekly Civil Defence Classes as the Cold War advances; her attempts to shake off an unwanted suitor, and life at home with her mother and her charming ne'er-do-well brother. Sparked with comic genius, the letters provide a unique insight into post-war England and the growth of an extraordinary friendship.