It begins slowly with the first part describing the lazy, idyllic summer and in which all the characters are introduced. This is really a book of two parts – the months before the outbreak of the First World War and then the events as the war got underway. Her appointment was the result of Agatha Kent’s and Lady Emily Wheaton’s wish to have a female teacher as a Latin teacher. It’s the summer of 1914, set in Rye in East Sussex when spinster Beatrice Nash arrived to teach Latin at the local grammar school. It is her second novel and I enjoyed it so much more than her first book, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson is one of my TBR books. This is another short book review as I catch up with writing about my reading.
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