Summer Before the War

Witty, heart-warming and profoundly moving, 'The Summer Before the War' is the story of an unexpected heroine and an unassuming village, caught up in an unimaginable war - by the bestselling author of 'Major Pettigrew's Last Stand'

It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season’s splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For the unimaginable is coming – and soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small town goes to war.

Intelept, incalzitor de inima si profund emotionant, „Vara inainte de razboi” este povestea unei eroine neasteptate si a unui sat modest, prins intr-un razboi de neimaginat - de catre autorul cel mai bine vandut al „Ultimului stand al maiorului Pettigrew”. in East Sussex, 1914. In mijlocul splendoarii sezonului, Beatrice Nash, extrem de independenta, ajunge in orasul de coasta Rye pentru a ocupa un post de profesor la liceul local.