01852cam a2200301 4500 258227613 TxAuBib 20160321120000.0 150813s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780451482112 0451482115 TxAuBib Simonson, Helen. The summer before the war [Large Print] : a novel / Helen Simonson. [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016] ℗2016. 689 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their own. When Hugh is sent to pick up Beatrice from the train station - life, of course, changes. Here, these characters and others we come to love and root for become characters we hope and pray for when the shadow of the Great War looms ever closer to home. 20160321. Authors Fiction. Women teachers Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 England Fiction. Country life England Fiction. Large print books. Historical fiction.