LOVE IS MY REASON
Mary Burchell

life had known nothing but the ugliness and hardship of various refugee camps. Then came
the day when her life was strangel y linked with an English party visiting Bavaria. David
Manworth was the first to wish to help her; his cousin Bertram’s professional eye saw in her
possibilities for a stage career; kind Mrs. Preston wanted to make her one of the family; only
Celia Preston, with an eye on David, was unwelcoming.
Returning to England with them, Anya found that even in a secure and prosperous world
there can be doubts and anxieties; but in the end she was to attain a happiness greater than
she had ever dared to imagine.
Mary Burchell’s pre-war work for the victims of Nazism has become famous, and her
sympathy for the victims of war, so often shown in a practical way in her life, gives a
specially warm interest to this novel.