hmonkeyreads 's review for:

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

4.0

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I read somewhere that this book was great for people who missed Downton Abbey and I think that was a good tip.

I'm always pleased with a smart, independent woman and Beatrice was no different. I enjoyed the goings on of the small English town in the run up to WWI.

Town politics, romance, scandal, war.....it's all here.