galliexyc 's review for:

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
2.0

2-2.5 stars

Fun but by no means exceptional. The characters were one-dimensional and cliched, as was the setting. It had the same tone as the book of a Jane Austen fan who tried and failed to write like someone would have in the appropriate time period.

I could see this making a decent BBC miniseries!