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Simonson, Helen.
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Women teachers -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
Country life -- England -- Fiction.
Villages -- Fiction.
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Simonson, Helen.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
Country life -- England -- Fiction.
Villages -- Fiction.
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The
summer
before
the
war
: a
novel
/ Helen Simonson.
by
Simonson, Helen.
Random House Large Print, 2016.
Call #:
LP FICTION SIM
Subjects
Women teachers -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
World
War
, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
Country life -- England -- Fiction.
Villages -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780451482112 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st large print ed.
Description:
689 p. ; 24 cm.
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, a canny force for progress, 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. (Never has there been a woman Latin teacher.) Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the
summer
months, as always, both with dreams of their own: Daniel, the poet, to publish a literary journal in Paris, and Hugh, to graduate from medical studies and marry his surgeon's daughter thus inheriting a lucrative practice. But then Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station and life, of course, changes. As with Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, the quintessential English village becomes the stage on which entrenched tradition, class, ignorance, family ties and love play out. 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."--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Literary fiction.
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