paula mcclain‘s novel love and ruin tells the extraordinary story of martha gail home and ernest hemingway gift for words, thrown together in the chaos of the spanish civil war and hopelessly in love. but driven too by individual passions that couldn't survive the marriage. a novelist and journalist who wanted each other but needed even more to be themselves. welcome. we're talking here about a tempestuous marriage, i think to put it mildly. let's talk about the two characters, let's leave hemingway to one side for a moment. if we can. martha gail horne who became you know a journalist absolutely cut from original material. indeed, yeah. for the rest of her life. just describe what she was like in the 1930s. in the 1930s so, she met hemingway in 1936 and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war, see it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side. and that was really her first war, and she was 28 years old. and for the rest of her like she really in madrid, found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she just went on to be on