A Song for Summer: The classic historical war time romance
May 2025 · Pan Macmillan
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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.
'Discovering Eva Ibbotson’s books is one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me' – Marian Keyes, author of Rachel's Holiday
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 into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her. As Hitler's troops march across Europe, Ellen finds she has promises to keep, even if it means sacrificing her future happiness . . .
Escape into more classic romance with Eva Ibbotson's: The Morning Gift, The Secret Countess, A Company of Swans, Magic Flutes and Madensky Square.
'Discovering Eva Ibbotson’s books is one of the nicest things that’s ever happened to me' – Marian Keyes, author of Rachel's Holiday
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 into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her. As Hitler's troops march across Europe, Ellen finds she has promises to keep, even if it means sacrificing her future happiness . . .
Escape into more classic romance with Eva Ibbotson's: The Morning Gift, The Secret Countess, A Company of Swans, Magic Flutes and Madensky Square.
About the author
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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