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Name: Long Summer Day

Author: R. F. Delderfield
Year: 1966
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Genres/categories: Historical fiction

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9780671786724
9780671812799
0671786725
0671812793
The first book in R. F. Delderfield'??s bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England introduces Paul Craddock, a young war veteran who stakes his future on a neglected country estate in Devon After serving his country in the Boer War, injured Lieutenant Paul Craddock returns to England to resume civilian life. But things have changed since he joined the Imperial Yeomanry three years ago. His father has died, leaving Paul as heir to a scrap metal business he has no intention of continuing. Instead, he purchases an auctioned-off thirteen-hundred-acre estate in a secluded corner of Devon. Neglected and overgrown, Shallowford becomes the symbol of all that Paul has lost'??and a reminder of the gentle place his homeland once was. And here, on this sprawling stretch of land, he will be changed by his love for two women: fiercely independent Grace Lovell, and lovely, demure Claire Derwent. Set in the English countryside in the first part of the previous century'??from the long '??Edwardian afternoon'? following the death of Queen Victoria, to the gathering storm of World War I'??Long Summer Day is the story of a man, his family, and a people struggling to adapt to life in a new world. Long Summer Day is the first novel in R. F. Delderfield'??s saga A Horseman Riding By, which continues with Post of Honour and The Green Gauntlet.
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