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    The Initials in The Heart: A Celebration of Love

    By Laurence Whistler

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    Laurence Whistler’s story of his five-year marriage to Jill Furse before her sudden early death has achieved a classic quality. Despite the tragedy of its ending the lasting impression is of two lives lived to the full in supreme happiness. Jill Furse was remarkable for many gifts; beauty, acting, poetry and above all gaiety and courage. This edition includes her poems.

    ‘One of the most sustainedly beautiful [prose] poems I have read for a long time.’ Lord David Cecil, Sunday Telegraph

    ‘One of the most moving prose threnodies ever written.’ Daily Telegraph

    ‘One of the most poignant love stories in the English language.’ Country Life

    ‘Certain to have a permanent place in the literature of love.’ Yorkshire Post
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDean Street Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2015
    ISBN9781910570548
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    • 5/5
      Artist and poet Laurence Whistler tells the story of his life with actress Jill Furse, and of their five-year marriage, cut tragically short by her early death. Told in his own words, and through extracts from her letters and diary, this is beautiful, intelligent prose, capturing a brief moment of joy as, against a background of approaching war, the couple live a rural idyll deep in the Devon countryside.For those interested in Laurence Whistler as an artist, there are occasional passing mentions of engravings made, but the events of this book take place early in his career. There are however insights into his influences, and there is a strong sense of his vision of countryside. His brother, Rex Whistler, does not feature heavily but, in one of the most moving passages of the book, Laurence recalls how he came to learn of Rex's death.This is a book that mixes the joyful and the poignant, love and grief, and that tries to resolve the paradox of passing time, to find the location of a lost, joyful past.