by Helen Simonson
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...
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 ...
I enjoyed this book immensely. The prose alone was worth the read. The story will tug at your heart strings as it takes you down memory lane into the world of England with its proper manners, pomp and circumstance in the early 20th century. It is told in four parts, by a wonderfully gifted author wh...
#THESUMMERBEFORETHEWAR AVAILABLE 3/22/16 5 STARS!!!!!!! @SimonsonHelen @RandomHouse DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!! I LOVED this book. I'm not sure how many pages it was, but I know it was a long one because I spent long hours with these characters and enjoyed every minute of it. I got to know them bef...
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson has the elements to make me fall in love with the book. I enjoy it, but I don't fall in love with the story. Helen Simonson's beautiful writing submerges the reader into the world of East Sussex, England; but the story is slow and feels as if I have read i...
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