Mad About the Boy

[trueriver]

Title: Mad About the Boy
Author: True River
Book: The Charioteer
Rating: general
Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters and make no profit from them.
Notes: Written for the maryrenaultfics Valentine's Day 2014 Prompt. I have matched Mad About the Boy, words and music by Noel Coward, recorded by Maxine Sullivan in 1940 and Dinah Washington in 1952

Comments

[heartofoshun]

I finally got here! Great little ficlet! Very atmospheric. The anti-Valentine version.

[trueriver]

Thank you! :)

[greerwatson]

"The anti-Valentine version."

Very well put.

[fawatson]

So bittersweet and poignant! This is beautiful.

[trueriver]

Thank you very much! Still chortling over your one! ;)

[greerwatson]

Painful. Not just her memories of Laurie (which are readily extrapolated), but her marriage and widowhood. Sadly common in wartime, of course; but Valentine's Day must have rubbed in their loss for so many in the post-war years.

[trueriver]

Yes - I would have liked to think her future could have been brighter, but this seemed more likely.

[trueriver]

Yes the song is really something, isn't it? *hugs*

Just found these

[penina_45]

I found the old TC fics and read them first. I'm rereading TC and just minutes ago came to the handkerchief bit, so knew who this was right away. I'm so glad you're still writing.