Eva Ibbotson's A Song for Summer
I needed a palate cleanser after that last book, so decided to reread this classic Ibbotson novel, wherein a young woman raised by suffragist activists, being of a more practical nature, winds up studying the domestic arts and heading to Austria to work at a boarding school. But . . . it's Austria in 1937. Ibbotson crafts a story that’s bittersweet, funny, and full of heroic acts of all kinds. I like her perspective; Art is good and good food is good, even if artists are sometimes silly, and NAZIS ARE BAD. Just all around a satisfying and not very intense read.
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