by Helen Simonson · Editions Nil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782841118908
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«L'été avant la guerre» is the historical novel by Helen Simonson, published by Editions Nil in paperback (640 pages, in French).
Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash, a twenty-three-year-old orphan, arrives in Rye to teach Latin and seeks independence in a conservative and misogynistic society. The imminent First World War disrupts the community, which takes in refugees and sees the men leave; Beatrice, under the protection of Agatha Kent, meets her nephews Daniel and Hugh.
Second novel by Helen Simonson, published in 2016. Original title in English: «The Summer Before the War»; French translation by Odile Demange.
For readers of historical fiction and period romances set during the First World War.
Helen Simonson is an English author who lives in the United States.
