Summer's End
By (Author) Amy Myers
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
20th August 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823/.914
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
That summer Aunt Tilly comes to stay with her brother the Rector and his four lively daughters in the sleepy Sussex village of Ashden. Aunt Tilly's visit sparks off a chain of events which threatens to split Ashden apart, in which Agnes Pilbeam, the Rectory palourmaid, and her sweetheart Jamie find themselves bewilderingly caught up. Then in August the lamps go out all over Europe and war bursts open the straitjacket of rural village life. The war will bring tragedy, change and love as private torments and struggles are subjected to the greater need. The challenge will prove too much for some and the making of others.
"In this first book of her Seasons of War quartet, Amy Myers gives us a richly rewarding story full of interesting characters with whose situations we can sympathize with - even if our 21st- century minds are horrified by some of the views expressed."--Historical Novels Review
Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier.