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Helen Simonson, "The Summer Before the War"
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April 12, 2016
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48:01Now PlayingSimonson burst onto the literary scene with her bestselling Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, a warm, wry novel about unexpected love set against a changing Britain. For her second novel Simonson evokes her onetime home, an East Sussex village, in 1914. Despite the turmoil in distant parts of Europe, the residents of Rye go on as they always have. Yet change is slowly creeping in—most noticeably via the town’s new Latin master, an independent, freethinking woman, who disrupts the well-laid plans of a budding doctor to marry into a lucrative practice. With engaging characters, rich storytelling, and a sensitivity to tradition and upheaval, Simonson tells a larger social history in this tale of one small town.
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