5/12/2023 0 Comments The summer before the war bookThe well-traveled daughter of a doting professor, the newly orphaned but fiercely independent Beatrice (think Elizabeth Bennet with a bike) plainly bristles at being patronized by everyone from the titled aunt who holds the purse-strings to her inheritance, to the parochial town leaders who expect her to be pleased about earning less than the unqualified male candidate ahead of her. It’s 1914 in Helen Simonson’s new novel, “The Summer Before the War,” and while the world is holding its breath against the German invasion of Belgium, residents of the English seaside town of Rye are riveted by the arrival of the new Latin teacher, Beatrice Nash - a well-educated woman not nearly as old or as plain as she had appeared on paper. Book review for the March 21 edition of the Star Tribune
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