While My Heart Beats Format:Paperback London discovers a letter she

London discovers a letter she wrote to her future self as part of a school project when she was ten years old

it is easy to remain righteous atop a mountain peak that touches the heavens

and a standard reference for gay men throughout the 80's and 90's

but as she quickly learns

tenderness

While My Heart Beats Format:Paperback London discovers a letter sheJohanna Lennox, a working class Scottish nurse, and Ellie Winthrop, a Voluntary Aid Detachment recruit from a wealthy British family, are thrown together in a general hospital in France during World War I. When Johanna's mother dies unexpectedly, Ellie is there to offer the comfort she desperately needs, and their feelings for each other grow into an attraction neither can deny. Johanna is convinced they can't have a future together and throws herself