AN EVOCATIVE AND CHARMING EDWARDIAN FAMILY SAGA

December 1911.

Mama held the firm opinion that children should be seen and not heard. But one always took Mama’s opinions with a pinch of salt, and Eliza Brannan certainly does. Twelve-year-old Eliza eagerly awaits the return of her brother, Roderick, from university. She plans to spend all the sun-drenched summer days to come exploring the grounds and picnicking with Roderick and their cousin, Dorothea. But these twenty-somethings are growing up fast. They are forging lives and loves of their own, and Eliza feels left behind. When an unexpected proposal of marriage leads Dorothea to a search for her long-lost father in the slums of London, Eliza begins to realize that the world is a bigger and more frightening place than she could have ever imagined.

A deeply affecting story of love and loss of innocence in a time of war, set in the bucolic Edwardian countryside.