The last summer
By: by Judith Kinghorn
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780755385997; 9780755385980; 9780755385973; 9780755383399
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; World War, 1914-1918; Fiction
Description: A sweepingly epic and gloriously intimate commercial debut - a beautiful and haunting story of lost innocence and a powerful, enduring love. Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken.
Table of contents: title: Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer; title: and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled. Tom is handsome and enigmatic; he is also is an outsider. Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa. As Tom and Clarissa find their friendship deepens into love, the wider landscape of political life around them is changing, and soon the world; title: and all that they know; title: is rocked irrevocably by a war that changes their lives for ever.