If I Could Tell You
  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241209608
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

If I Could Tell You

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A passionate love story about how the Second World War changed women's lives for ever

Suffolk, 1939: Julia is a young wife and mother, whose husband Richard's good looks mask his crashing conventionality. When she falls for the dashing but unreliable documentary filmmaker Dougie she gives up her staid, provincial life and moves to London to live a bohemian life with him, unwittingly and agonizingly losing the right to see her young son along the way.

In London she quickly realizes how useless and unskilled she is at anything, and the great romance is not all it seemed. But then the war intervenes, a new sense of purpose arrives, and Julia discovers she has a rare gift . . .
  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241209608
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for If I Could Tell You

Heart-wrenching . . . convincing and intoxicating . . . Julia is a very English Anna Karenina . . . An unromantic love story that feels honest and searing.

The Times

Vivid, candid, engaging. So honest.

Helen Dunmore

What makes this story stand out is its absolute honesty. There is no false sentimentality, plenty of unflinching observation and some excellent writing . . . her detail is truly superb. Wartime Britain has been rarely so skilfully evoked.

Daily Mail

Beautifully observed and written, I loved it.

Woman and Home

Elizabeth Wilhide writes about universal emotions with great tenderness and imagination.

Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days

I adored this book . . . touching and very compelling.

Penny Vincenzi on Ashenden

A rich and absorbing social history

Financial Times on Ashenden

Wilhide excels at minor social details. Well-observed.

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