~ Trade Paperback

Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with The Summer Before the War, a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved book Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.

At once haunting and effervescent, The Summer Before the War is a luminous story of family, beautifully plotted and morally astute. 

“A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal ... a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.” -- The Washington Post