The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Random House, 2016

0812993101 / 9780812993103

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The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won t come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master. When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking and attractive than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war. Advance praise for The Summer Before the War At once haunting and effervescent, The Summer Before the War demonstrates the sure hand of a master. Helen Simonson s characters enchant us, her English countryside beguiles us, and her historical intelligence keeps us at the edge of our seats. This luminous story of a family, a town, and a world in their final moments of innocence is as lingering and lovely as a long summer sunset. Annie Barrows, author of The Truth According to Us and co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Helen Simonson has outdone herself in this radiant follow-up to Major Pettigrew s Last Stand. The provincial town of Rye, East Sussex, in the days just before and after the Great War is so vividly drawn it fairly vibrates. The depth and sensitivity with which she weighs the steep costs and delicate bonds of wartime and not just for the young men in the trenches, but for every changed life and heart reveal the full mastery of her storytelling. Simonson is like a Jane Austen for our day and age she is that good and The Summer Before the War is nothing short of a treasure. Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun.

Codice articolo CIN0812993101G

Titolo
The Summer Before the War
Autore
Helen Simonson
Editore
Random House
Anno di pubblicazione
2016
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0812993101
ISBN 13
9780812993103

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