{"product_id":"clouds-of-love-and-war-9781913491130","title":"Clouds of Love and War","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping wartime novel of a love that struggles to survive. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through scenes that are occasionally panoramic and often intimate, Rachel Billington in \u003ci\u003eClouds of Love and War\u003c\/i\u003e balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a World War II Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. But the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are things worth living--or dying--for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the connecting stories of two young people and their wider families, and against a background of southern county airfields, Billington brings the world of wartime England, now eighty years in the past, back to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unicorn Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913491130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Rachel Billington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40649080799413,"sku":"9781913491130","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5d6351b4-352f-4d24-ae8c-0dfe76ffa041.jpg?v=1627963664","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/clouds-of-love-and-war-9781913491130","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}