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Author:

Simonson, Helen, author.

Title:

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

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

492 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Authors--Fiction.
Women teachers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--England--Fiction.
Country life--England--Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Women teachers--Fiction.
Man-woman relationship--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--England--Fiction.
Country life--England--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Satire.
Historical fiction.
Satire.

Notes:

Includes reading group guide.

Summary:

Arriving in the village of Rye, England, in 1914, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes the first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew.

ISBN:

0812983203
9780812983203

LCCN:

bl2017006495

Locations:

NHPD993 -- Belmond Public Library (Belmond)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

DMPC403 -- Montgomery Memorial Library (Jewell)