A mother publishes the letters her daughter sent from Germany in the summer of 1914, where the girl had gone eagerly to study music. Christine writes of lodgings, lessons, new friends and afternoon coffee with neighbours who talk loudly of war, and the letters build a portrait of a nation’s mood in the weeks before August. It first appeared in 1917 under the name Alice Cholmondeley.
A wartime novel by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, written in anger and best read as a document of 1917. Download the free EPUB.