Helen Simonson's latest book, The Summer Before the War, was surprising. I enjoyed her previous novel (Major Pettigrew) but this wasn't high on my must-read. The book is set in a Sussex town in the year before World War I. It's almost a cross between Downton Abbey and well.... Downton Abbey..
Hugh, the nephew of a gentry family, and Beatrice, a latin teacher, experience an array of "adventures" worthy of Julian Fellowes. The book deals lightly with social change, including two sets of LGBT characters. In the end there are deaths as a result of the war.
The book was slow, but the end was satisfying.
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