The story of a young VAD nurse and poet in WWI and the wartime career and eventual loss of her fiance was certain to be moving. It has been most sensitively collated by her great niece.

"The Tears of War" is the true love story of a First World War poet, May Cannan and an artilery officer, Bevil Quiller-Couch. The book tells their story through May's poems, extracts from her autobiography and through Bevil's letters. Part biography, part poetry, a unique telling of their story.