Helen Simonson
Helen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics with an MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, she is a former travel advertising executive who has lived in America for the last two decades. A longtime...
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Helen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics with an MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, she is a former travel advertising executive who has lived in America for the last two decades. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C. area. This is her first novel.
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Good story of how life was simple before WWI in a small English village of Rye then the war came and secrets came out and life became messy and complicated as the villagers try to maintain a semblance of life before the war. I enjoyed this book. I loved Beatrice and Hugh and was so glad that Hugh...
A pleasant, well-written, if sometimes heavy-handed, story of love and romance after 60. That sounds a bit milquetoast, but that's not what the book is; it may not have stirred my soul, but it was easy to pick up and hard to put down. Small village, small minds, race relations and a dying class...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson Paperback, Large Print, 585 pages Published December 1st 2010 by Large Print Press (first published 2010) ISBN: 1594134448 (ISBN13: 9781594134449) I was not sure I would like this one; but once I started following Major Pettigrew's character in...
It is the summer of 1914, and Beatrice Nash, 23, finds herself in Rye, in Sussex, attempting desperately to get a job as a teacher at the local grammar school. (As Latin mistress, of all things - very shocking for a female!) She has fled her late father's family, wealthy but highly controlling, to...
Sometimes this book could not hold my attention. Sometimes it was good. A couple of times it was really touching. Because much of the part that moved me emotionally was near the end, I finished feeling like it was a great book, but then I remembered that I don't even recall some of the storyline ...
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