The summer before the war [sound recording] : a novel / Helen Simonson.
Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent 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. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their own. When Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station - life, of course, changes. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101888575
- ISBN: 1101888571
- ISBN: 9781101888599
- ISBN: 1101888598
- Physical Description: 13 sound discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Fiona Hardingham. |
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| Subject: | Authors > Fiction. Women teachers > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > England > Fiction. Country life > England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Audiobooks, Unabridged. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| La Conner Regional Library | CD FIC SIMONS | 103891 | MULTIMEDIA | Available | - |