A Song for Summer

A Song for Summer

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author = Eva Ibbotson
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language = English
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genre = Historical, romance, YA
publisher = Puffin Books
pub_date = 1997
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"A Song for Summer" is the most recent novel by British author Eva Ibbotson. Eva Ibbotson is possibly best known as an award-winning and prolific author of children's books, but she also has written many beloved romance novels for the adult market, four of which ("A Countess Below Stairs", "A Song For Summer", "A Company of Swans", and "The Morning Gift") have been recently reissued for the young adult market.

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Set in early 1940s Austria, the novel centers around a young English woman called Ellen Carr. Raised in a family of prominent suffragettes, Ellen, to the surprise of all friends and family, grows up with a great love of all things domestic. Inspired by Henny, the servant/partner of her grandfather, she enjoys cooking, cleaning and the various other chores that her mother and aunts have abandoned in their academic and feminist pursuits. While Ellen attends University to please her family, she leaves school before her final exams when Henny contracts cancer in order to be at her side.

After Henny's death, Ellen travels to Henny's homeland of Austria to become housemother at Hallendorf School, a progressive school for children stocked with characters of all sorts. There, in the beautiful Austrian countryside, Ellen discovers an eccentric world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experimental dancers and a tortoise on wheels. And then there is the particularly intriguing, enigmatic, and very handsome Marek, part-time gardener and fencing teacher. Ellen is instantly attracted to the mysterious gardener, but Hitler’s reich is already threatening their peaceful world.

But when she discovers that Marek is actually a famous musician working with various Reistances to smuggle Jews to safety, Ellen begins to realize the depth of her feelings for him—and the danger their newfound love faces in the shadow of war.

Upon arrival at the school, Ellen finds that everything is not as it should be. The school is based on the Arts and is an institution for wealthy children, however, the parents of many of these children have used the school simply as a place out of sight and mind, in which to dump children that they see as nuisances. Ellen takes on the role of mother to these children, giving them the love and encouragement that they deserve.


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