Helen Thomas is extraordinarily open and honest about her meeting with Edward Thomas, her marriage to him, and their subsequent struggles with his depression, as well as her love for him. Perhaps because the recollections were not originally written for publication, they give to the reader a sense of listening in to a private conversation. Intimate, revealing, and in places, moving, they are well worth reading - and flesh out the home portrait of Edward Thomas the poet. Character names are disguised in the books in order to protect the people to whom they refer - but are easily worked out.