From the book cover:
In 1940 Antonia White was divorced, the mother of two small children, a lapsed Catholic of fifteen years standing. One day, out of the blue, she received a letter from an unknown admirer of The Frost in May published seven years previously. She replied and so began an intense correspondence which, published here, becomes a partial autobiography of this extraordinary woman. Written in London during the Blitz, the book is redolent of Britain at War, and tells us a great deal about what happened next to the heroine-author of the great quartet of novels which have delighted readers.