No one thought Bertie Simmonds could speak. So, when he is, heard singing an Easter hymn, this is not so much, the miracle some think as, a bolt drawn back, releasing long-repressed emotions with potentially devastating consequences...A decade later, Bertie marries Anstace, a woman old enough to be his mother, and another layer of mystery starts to peel away. Beginning in a village in Kent and set between the two World Wars, That They Might Lovely Be stretches from the hell of Flanders, to the liberating beauty of the Breton coast, recounting a love affair, which embraces, the living and the dead

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