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The last summer by judith kinghorn7/6/2023 ![]() But soon the winds of war come to Deyning, as they come to all of Europe. Though her parents disapprove of their upstairs-downstairs friendship, the two are determined to see each other, and they meet in secret to share what becomes a deep and tender romance. Clarissa is drawn to Tom Cuthbert, the housekeeper's handsome son. In July of 1914, innocent, lovely Clarissa Granville lives with her parents and three brothers in the idyllic isolation of Deyning Park, a grand English country house, where she whiles away her days enjoying house parties, country walks and tennis matches. ![]() I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken.It was the beginning of summer and, unbeknown to any of us then, the end of a belle epoque. ![]()
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