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During an idyllic English summer following World War II an unlikely friendship emerges between a teenage, nationalistic working class man and an older bohemian woman. While working a summer job for her, the teenager discovers an unpublished book of poetry holding a tragic secret message beyond the g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Benjamin, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Third Man Books, [2020]
Edition:First USA edition.
Subjects:
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Older women > Fiction.
Intergenerational relations > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Robin Hood's Bay (England) > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Friendship.
Intergenerational relations.
Older women.
Teenage boys.
England > Robin Hood's Bay.
Great Britain.
1900-1999
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
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Summary:During an idyllic English summer following World War II an unlikely friendship emerges between a teenage, nationalistic working class man and an older bohemian woman. While working a summer job for her, the teenager discovers an unpublished book of poetry holding a tragic secret message beyond the grave from her deceased lover, and both their lives are irrevocably changed.
Physical Description:260 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:9781733350143
1733350144