A song for summer

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397 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2007 by Speak.

ISBN:
978-0-14-240866-7
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OCLC Number:
132693450

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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.

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reviewed A song for summer by Eva Ibbotson

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Well, that was immersive, wonderful, and utterly heart-wrenching. I'm seriously impressed, as I'm reading Ibbotson's works, that while a lot of thematic elements recur, there's no sense of repetition, and I've yet to find a lead character I wasn't able to invest in significantly. That's some fine skill indeed, and this book exemplifies it well.

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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