The New York Times bestseller with the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small town British life as her New York Times bestselling debut, Major Pettigrew´s Last Stand. In the summer of 1914, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, arrives in the small town of Rye, England, as the first female candidate to teach Latin in the local school. Over the course of the novel, she and the nephew of her sponsor fall in love. Surrounding them is a vibrant, colorful cast of characters with whom the reader will fall in love, as they did with Major Pettigrew´s Last Stand. As in Jane Austen, social and domestic dramas and subplots abound, until all pales in the shadow of the Great War.
