From the first time she heard the unforgettable melody her father whistled, Mabel Shields was determined to unlock the lyrics to this haunting tune, a relic of his time in the Great War. A curiosity that led her to meet Paul Conway, manager of Barwell’s struggling music shop.
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From the first time she heard the unforgettable melody her father whistled, Mabel Shields was determined to unlock thelyrics to this haunting tune, a relic of his time in the Great War. A curiosity that led her to meet Paul Conway, manager ofBarwell’s struggling music shop. Mabel begins to share Paul’s interest in cinema as well as appreciate his extensiveknowledge of popular music. Odeon matinees together and lyrics as coded love letters chart their growing closeness asthe cost of the war bears down more heavilyon their lives, living in fear, under ever tighter restrictions, and losing lovedones. And what happened to her, while rushing home through a blustery storm one Christmas eve years later, that brought it allback?
