A Song for Summer
$22.48
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
A beautiful anniversary edition of a classic romance.
In A Song for Summer, bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson propels you into idyllic beautiful Austria and a love story set in the shadow of gathering war.
“Elegantly written, witty and well-observed” - Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times
In the spring of 1937, Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, where she soon knows she’s found her calling. Swept…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035047109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035047101 |
| Author: | Eva Ibbotson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
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Critics Review
Her books are utterly delightful * Daily Mail *
Discovering Eva Ibbotson’s books is one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me. – Marian Keyes
Elegantly written, witty and well observed – Nigella Lawson * The Sunday Times *
Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and fled to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. She became a writer while bringing up her four children in Newcastle. Her bestselling novels have been published and loved by readers around the world. Her novels for adults, all rich historical romances, convey her deep love of the arts, the Austrian countryside, and the importance of belonging. In 2001, her children’s novel Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Eva passed away peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
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