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The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

592 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4088-3766-5 (ISBN)

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It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season’s splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For the unimaginable is coming – and soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small town goes to war.

Helen Simonson was born in Buckinghamshire and spent her teenage years in a small village near Rye in East Sussex. Her debut novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was an international bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and was translated and published in twenty one countries. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Helen is married, with two grown sons, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her second novel. www.helensimonson.com

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 196 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-4088-3766-8 / 1408837668
ISBN-13	978-1-4088-3766-5 / 9781408837665
Zustand	Neuware