A song for summer
by Eva Ibbotson
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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.
Boarding schoolsBritishCenters for the performing artsFictionHistorical fictionHistoryHousemothersWar storiesWorld War, 1939-1945Young womenJuvenile fictionYoung adult fiction