![]() I would have happily read another 100-200 pages if Simonson had deemed it necessary. So, I happily picked it up, started reading, starting laughing, cried a little and before I knew it I looked up and it was over. At the same time, I dearly loved Simonson’s first novel, Major Pettigrew Lives for a Day. In Simonson’s novel, small towns are the center of a vast, vibrant world.Īctually the small town setting is what made me rather hesitant to pick up The Summer Before the War. That and its a rather thick book, and I seem to be perpetually surrounded by rather thick books. ![]() Helen Simonson’s latest offer, The Summer Before the War is a veritable love letter to Edwardian England and the Sussex countryside. Simonson posses a rare talent for detailing the small-town way of life the petty cruelties and the gossip, the unlikely heroes and lovers. ![]()
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