A portrait of a turbulent and beautiful seventy-year-long marriage forged during the onset ofWorld War II.Born in the 1920s on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and growsinto adulthood as a sensitive man, torn between his love for poetry and the immediate demandsof the world around him. When he marries the magnetic and demanding Evelyn amongst theoutbreak of war, his capacity to love is increasingly tested - up to and beyond when sheabandons him on the cusp of death.An unconventional love story, harrowing and deeply tender, Dear Evelyn studies two peoplewho permanently shape each other over a shared lifetime.