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The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
3.0

I confess I'm surprised at the praise this book gets.

While it was well-written and had illustrative prose, it was also long-winded and very slow to start (I wanted to give up on it so many times!).

In summation, I would say this book is "okay". It didn't amaze me and I didn't find it lived up to the hype.