Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.
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Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.
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Jennifer Johnston has an amazing ability to convey to anyone who is not Irish just how complex and fascinating are her fellows. This book, set in the years after the First World War, captures the nature of teenagers and their idealism exactly. National conflict clashes headlong with the romantic secret ideas of Nancy, leading to ultimate tragedy. No character is superfluous, all are sparely delineated but in such a way that the reader is left with a clear idea of how they look and sound and think. Jennifer Johnston has never written a poor book and I treasure every one; reading them gives one mental stimulation of the highest and best kind.