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March 22, 2016

Today's Featured Title and Contest March 22, 2016
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Wednesday, March 23rd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR by Helen Simonson, which releases today. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR by Helen Simonson
The bestselling author of MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.

East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won’t come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master.

When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking --- and attractive --- than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing.

But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha’s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war.

THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Read Carol Fitzgerald's commentary about the book in the April 1st Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter.


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Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, March 23rd.

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