The is a collection of strips from 9 Chickweed Lane that formed a sort of interlude in the strip for some months somewhere round abouts 2009. These strips tell the story of Edna (Gran from 9 Chickweed Lane) during her time in the USO in WWII. I loved loved loved this story when I read it in the daily strip and have been trying to get my hands on a copy of the collection since I first knew it existed. For whatever reason, I never could find it new and used copies were running at high high high prices. The other day I stumbled across it again on my amazon wishlist and saw that someone was selling it for five or six dollars over the cover price rather than five or six times the cover price, and I snatched it up. The story of Edna's adventures and loves as a USO singer and allied spy is just as wonderful as I remembered it: sweet and romantic and bittersweet and real, and just beautifully illustrated and told. I'll be rereading this one many times, I'm sure. Recommended. ( )