
Synopsis
Set in the idyllic beauty of a late Edwardian summer in the country, where the passionate pursuit of unexpected love and the village outrage over the arrival of a female Latin teacher will all be swept away by the onset of a war no one could imagin... Read More
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Good Reading's Judith Grace reviews a novel about the city of Sussex in 1914, on the brink of war. Despite the grim tension, the characters of The Summer Before the War 'sparkle through the pages'. Read on >