A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’

Anglophiles mourning the end of “Downton Abbey” will find solace in Helen Simonson’s “The Summer Before the War,” a novel that begins in pre-World War I England and deftly observes the effect of war on the staid Edwardian sensibilities regarding gender, money and class.
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