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Author:

Simonson, Helen, author.

Title:

The summer before the war : a novel / Helen Simonson.

Edition:

First large print edition.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

689 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Authors--Fiction.
Women teachers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--England--Fiction.
Country life--England--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Large type books.

Summary:

It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their own. When Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station - life, of course, changes. Here, these characters and others we come to love and root for become characters we hope and pray for when the shadow of the Great War looms ever closer to home.

ISBN:

0451482115
9780451482112

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