Bletchley fic!

[amoama]

Yay for Bletchley watching, and icons from 4nn4 and all the general loveliness of that show. Jean is still my favourite ever ex-SOE/Bletchley Matron/Walking Stick Wielder/Librarian but the Susan/Millie something ratcheted right up this series. Hence, fic!

Title: A Tree Called Life
Fandom: The Bletchley Circle
Pairing: Millie/Susan
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 2919
Warnings: Pre-independence Senegalese-setting but no actual Senegalese characters.
Summary: Millie and Susan always planned to get to Saint-Louis, although life gets in the way, eventually they both manage it. Thanks so much to lilithilien  for the indulgent yet handy betaing!

A Tree Called Life on AO3

Comments

[riverlight]

Aw, fic from you, yay! I wish I read Bletchley now. (Any chance it's about codebreaking? I'm reading Cryptonomicon right now—one of my all-time favorite novels, one which I've read four or five times—which features Bletchley Park...)

[amoama]

Aw thanks for your encouragement even without knowing the fandom! Bletchley Circle is a tv-show - a 2 series/seven episode wonder! (although, maybe you meant, read the fic for it?) Anyway it is kinda about codebreaking - it's about 4 women who used to work at Bletchley Park in the war and now they lead much more boring lives post-war so they get back together to solve a murder that the police are doing bugger all about. It's truly fantastic.

I am downloading Cryptonomicon to my kindle now. Exciting! I am Bletchley Park-mad. I went up to visit a few months ago and it was lovely and some of the women who used to work there give tours and demonstrate the machines - very cool!

[riverlight]

No, I meant the "watch the show" rather than "read the fic"; I know nothing about it at all! But it does sound right up my alley, I admit.

YAYYYY Cryptonomicion! It's my sister's favorite book as well, and when I told her this, she said, "Oooh, good, the gospel spreads!" Seriously, Neal Stephenson is brilliant. I hope you like it. (If you do, he has a trilogy of historical novels that has connections to the world he sets up in Cryptonomicon. I am SUCH an apostle of his works!)