{"product_id":"wilfred-and-eileen","title":"Wilfred and Eileen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 326px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Rogers_1.jpg?v=1593112051\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"redtext\"\u003ePREFACE BY THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e200pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155974\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilfred and Eileen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is by Jonathan Smith, author of several novels and non-fiction books. For many years he taught at Tonbridge School and one day the young Anthony Seldon (now the Master of Wellington and the biographer of Tony Blair) told him the story of his grandparents Wilfred and Eileen Willett. Jonathan Smith's first novel a few years later was based on their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilfred Willett was 22 in 1912 when, at a May Ball at Trinity College, Cambridge, he met Eileen Stenhouse. The couple fell in love but because of parental opposition on both sides they married in secret. The approach of the First World War is evoked with great simplicity; Eileen stays living at home in Kensington whilst Wilfred continues his medical studies at the London Hospital. When Wilfred joins up and is shot in the head, it is only through the efforts of his wife and colleagues that he survives.  The \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e reviewer noted that it recaptured the spirit of WWI 'with such curious conviction that I almost felt I had come across some lost document of the time.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, this 'delightful novel' (Margaret Drabble) also focuses on the beginning of the Willetts' new life in deepest Kent after the War. It is a charming, poignant book which manages to write about harrowing matters without being in itself harrowing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper fabric is taken from 'Maud', a 1913 furnishing fabric by Vanessa Bell manufactured in Maromme, France, in a private collection. This is another Omega Workshop fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e'A Royal Army Medical Corps Stretcher-Bearer Fully Equipped' by Gilbert Roger, 1919\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Smith","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098808570163,"sku":"ooa1789695057264","price":24.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098808602931,"sku":"jre1789695057265","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098808635699,"sku":"ohc1789695057266","price":31.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098808668467,"sku":"nta1789695057267","price":50.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/wilfred-and-eileen_1.jpg?v=1789695061","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/wilfred-and-eileen","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}