Midnight Again av Helen Ramsey Turtle

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<p>''a momentous book, a truly significant recovered voice from the 1930s and 1940s'' <br/><strong>Gerald Dawe, <em>Dublin Review of Books</em></strong></p><p>''Professor Foster has done a wonderful job in presenting and annotating the letters and what comes leaping from the page is a portrait, a place, an era and a society rarely seen in such close-up.''<strong><em> <br/></em>Gillian Reynolds CBE</strong></p><p>''Midnight Again'' is a selection of the alert and animated letters that Helen Ramsey Turtle wrote back to her family in Denver, Colorado from Northern Ireland during the Second World War, edited by John Wilson Foster.</p><p>The letters home kept her American family abreast of her domestic life in Belfast and on Mahee Island, Strangford Lough where she lived with her husband, the naturalist and stockbroker, Lancelot Turtle, and young daughters. And abreast, too, of the conduct of the war on the home front as well as the