When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Alan."—Dale O'Connor
soldier, woman, mother, fiancée, melodramatic, tense, italy, party, london, world war ii, love letters, long-distance relationship, murder, amnesia, domestic violence, mystery, love, 1940s
It's all on the preposterous side, but it's done with such conviction and artistry that both its melodrama and its unabashed romanticism work.
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