num_pages: 235
description: While the Grey family is visiting the battlefields of France, their mother becomes seriously ill. Their father is far away, busy with his work as an explorer. So thirteen year-old Cecil is left virtually alone with her brothers and sisters in a French chateau-hotel, owned by Mademoiselle Zizi. While Cecil watches from the sidelines, her beautiful older sister Joss falls in love with Eliot, the charming English gentleman who appoints himself the family's guardian. And while the greengages grow ripe and sweet in the sun, the sense of danger and mystery increases.
language: English
title: The Greengage Summer
titlecomplete: The Greengage Summer
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Young Adult, Classics, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 2744
publisher: Macmillan Children's Books