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For admirers of Atonement, Birdsong, and Downton Abbey, the first of three novels in regards to a privileged English family long lasting the trials of World Conflict I, from New York Times best-selling writer Kate Williams. Within the idyllic early summertime of 1914, life is wonderful for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding with their little girl Emmeline while their eldest child, Arthur, is studying in Paris, and Michael is merely back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring the world. However the onslaught of conflict changes everything, and soon the de Witts end up sidelined and in danger of dropping everything they keep dear. As Celia challenges to make sense of the changing world around her, she sits about her age group to become listed on the war work and locates herself embroiled in a complicated plot that sets not only herself but those she is in love with in danger. With gripping fine detail and great empathy, Kate Williams tells the story of Celia and her family because they are shunned with a society that previously embraced them, torn aside by sorrow, and buffeted and transformed by the storms of conflict.
