What There Was Not To Tell, by Edie Clark

What There Was Not To Tell, by Edie ClarkWhat There Was Not to Tell by Edie Clark Whenever Edie Clark asked her father about World War II, he would reply, "There isn't much to tell." But there were bags and boxes full of letters. And the story she found after her parents died, was as rich and strange and heartbreaking as a fairy tale. Once upon a time there was a beautiful young woman and the two young men who loved her. Both of them wanted to marry her; both went off to war, one to Africa

What There Was Not to Tell by Edie Clark

Whenever Edie Clark asked her father about World War II, he would reply, "There isn't much to tell." But there were bags and boxes full of letters. And the story she found after her parents died, was as rich and strange and heartbreaking as a fairy tale.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful young woman and the two young men who loved her. Both of them wanted to marry her; both went off to war, one to Africa and the other to the Pacific. When she finally decided which man she would wed, she wrote to tell him of her decision but the letter came back stamped "Deceased."

After the war, she married the other, who knew he was not her first choice, but he wanted her still. They had two daughters, who grew up with three sets of grandparents - their mother's parents, their father's parents, and the parents of the young man who had been killed.

They lived not happily ever after, but in a perpetual state of longing. In her search for answers, Edie finds the story, and comes to understand the devastating effects of war. She learns that no one returns from war unharmed. And that her parents had a love story all their own.

Paperback, 250 pages.