397 pages
English language
Published March 9, 2007 by Speak.
A song for summer
by Eva Ibbotson
2 stars
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On the eve of World War II, a young Englishwoman takes a job as housemother in a boarding school in Austria. She falls in love with the groundsman who is in reality a Czech composer. The arrival of the Nazis leads to drama, the lovers are separated but they will reunite. By the author of Madensky Square.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria -- Fiction
- British -- Austria -- Fiction
- Boarding schools -- Fiction
- Housemothers -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- War stories
- Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction