![]() ![]() The narrator of The Year After is a young officer returning from France. Before the year is out her whole world loses its innocence on the battlefields of France, and the story follows her romantic obsession through the nightmare of the war into the early years of peace. ![]() That summer she loses her innocence to a young man on the outer edge of her social milieu, her uncle’s illegitimate son. ![]() The narrator of The Last Summer is the teenage daughter of the owner of the house. Both novels are set in country houses in southern England, the homes of the super-rich, and both are told in the first person. The Last Summer is the sultry, idyllic summer of 1914, before the young men went away to war, and The Year After is 1919, the year the survivors came back to a grieving, shell-shocked nation. The Last Summer and The Year After do just that, so much so that it seems inexcusable not to include them in the same review.Įven the titles are complementary. Occasionally the accidents of publishing bring out two books in the same season which neatly complement each other. ![]()
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