Arranged by Airmail: Interviews A.C.

Two mothers. Fifty years of letters. One fruitcake that could not be posted.In 1971, a schoolgirl in Finland and a schoolgirl in Lagos were given each other's addresses by a pen-friend scheme. They wrote for the next fifty years. Somewhere around 2003, they stopped writing about the weather.In February 2005, Tunde's mother sent him to Finland with a cake that could not be posted. Aino's mother sent Aino to the airport to collect a parcel. The parcel was him.Twenty-one years on, a student with a notebook sits at their kitchen table by the lake and tries to give their story a score.How I Met My Husband: interviews with couples who fell in love before they could talk to each other. Every book stands alone. About A.C.: a journalism student who rates every real love story against the films, out of ten. She loses notebooks, knocks over tea, cries at proposals, and refuses to be set up. Every couple tries anyway.