The summer before the war : a novel / Helen Simonson.
Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0451482115
- ISBN: 9780451482112
- Physical Description: 689 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. |
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Subject: | Authors > Fiction. Country life > England > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Women teachers > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > England > Fiction. |
Genre: | Large print books. Historical fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Webb City Public Library | LP Fic Simonson, Helen (Text) | 38262200000068 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |