The Last Summer by Mary Jane Staples - 9780552145138

Name: The Last Summer by Mary Jane Staples - 9780552145138
Brand: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Transworld Publishers Ltd

The Last SummerAuthor(s): Mary Jane Staples\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Corgi Books\nISBN-13: 9780552145138, 978-0552145138\nSynopsis\nJob and Jemima Hardy weren't Londoners by birth. They had both lived in a Sussex village until lack of work had sent Job and the family to Walworth - to a house in Stead Street. They got it cheap because of the poltergiest but they were sensible folk and decided that eight shillings a week rent was a bargain and - well - if the floors and doors sometimes moved a bit, they could live with it. They settled quickly into London life - particularly Jonathan, the eldest. Jonathan got a job at Camberwell Green and it was there, in Lyons teashop, that he met Emma Somers, niece of Boots Adams. Over a long and hazy summer - the summer of 1939 - the two young people met, always at lunchtime, and never allowing their friendship to progress too far.\n\nThen, as the clouds of war gathered over Europe, Jonathan .