Ibbotson, Eva.

A song for summer / Eva Ibbotson. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Speak, 2007. - 397 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

9781447280040 (pbk.)

2009290728


World War, 1939-1945--Austria--Fiction.
British--Austria--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Housemothers--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.


Vienna (Austria)--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
War stories.

PR6059.B3 / S66 2007

823.914 / IBB