A song for summer

Eva Ibbotson First published 1997

About this book

On the eve of World War II, a young Englishwoman takes a job as housemother in a boarding school in Austria. She falls in love with the groundsman who is in reality a Czech composer. The arrival of the Nazis leads to drama, the lovers are separated but they will reunite. By the author of Madensky Square.

Subjects

  • boarding schools
  • british
  • centers for the performing arts
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical, general
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • housemothers
  • juvenile fiction
  • teen fiction
  • teen love stories
  • vienna (austria), fiction
  • war stories
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • young adult fiction
  • young women
  • young women, fiction