This sumptuous romance is made for fans of Downton.’ - The Lady Magazine, UK ‘The year is 1914 and love and war are about to transform priveleged 16 year-old Clarissa’s charmed existence forever. It’s a glorious read, highly recommended.’ - Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller (magazine), UK ‘An enchanting début… big storytelling stuff of social and political change spanning the First World War and beyond. An epic and enthralling love story set against the backdrop of the Great War.’ - Fanny Blake, Woman and Home (magazine), UK ‘DON’T MISS The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn.

‘Well drawn characters combined with flawless writing make Kinghorn’s debut a triumph… Un-put-downable and relentlessly intriguing, this is a tale for the ages.’ - Dish Magazine, US ‘An enchanting story of love and war, and the years beyond.’ - Penny Vincenzi For lifetimes - lifetimes we had only just begun to imagine - stretched out before us criss-crossing and fading into a distant horizon.Ī sweepingly epic and gloriously intimate story of lost innocence, changing fortunes, and a powerful, enduring love. …we didn’t stand on the brink, we ran along it, unperturbed by tremulous skies, sure of our footing and certain of sunshine, hungry for the next chapter in our own unwritten stories. But as Tom and Clarissa's friendship deepens, the wider landscape of political life around them is changing, and soon the world - and all that they know - is rocked irrevocably by a war that changes their lives for ever. Tom is handsome and enigmatic he is also an outsider.Īmbitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is also an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university, she is dazzled. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party.