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Learn moreClarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken.
It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer—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 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's
friendship deepens, the wider landscape of political life around them is
changing, and another story unfolds: they are not the only people in
love. Soon the world—and all that they know—is rocked by a war that
changes their lives forever.
Judith Kinghorn is the author of four novels: The Echo of Twilight, The Snow Globe, The Memory of Lost Senses, and The Last Summer. She was born in Northumberland, educated in the Lake District, and is a graduate in English and art history. She lives in Hampshire, England, with her husband and two children.
Jane Wymark is an English actress known for playing Morwenna Chynoweth Whitworth in the BBC's Poldark and Joyce Barnaby in ITV's Midsomer Murders. An experienced audiobook narrator as well, her recordings include The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh and Whatever It Takes by Adele Parks.