To Woman in Love is a book of letters about love, its pain and transcending beauty, written by women in different countries - and Barry Long’s replies. The women speak of their love and their pain, despair and doubt; and reveal their extraordinary courage and passion in being true to love. Barry Long answers by speaking intimately to them about their fight for recognition, their struggle with sexuality and the dishonesty of men. All the emotional tides of woman’s life are here: the jealousies, infatuations and traumas, health problems and eating disorders, menstruation and menopause, separation and loss - and all relationships, from first love through motherhood to old age.