In the summer of 1914, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, arrives in a small English town to teach Latin in the local school. She and the nephew of her sponsor fall in love. Surrounding them is a vibrant, colorful cast of characters with whom the reader will fall in love. As in Jane Austen, social and domestic dramas and subplots abound, until all pales in the shadow of the Great War. A New York Times bestseller.