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May, 2017

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Book Review: The Summer Before the War

Hugh Grange, Beatrice Nash, Aunt Agatha. Bettina Fothergill, Mrs. Turber, Mr. Tillingham and Mr. Dimbly. Snout. How can names like these not intrigue us? They do, and the marvelous news is there are not only plenty more, but each one of these names is a totally fleshed-out character in the often enchanting, occasionally horrific, but always engrossing story line of Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War.

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