Helen Simonson: The Summer Before the War [2017] paperback Condition:New It's 2010 and Britain stands

It's 2010 and Britain stands at a crossroads

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Helen Simonson: The Summer Before the War [2017] paperback Condition:New It's 2010 and Britain standsIt is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season's splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice comes alive to