ANGELA LAMBERT

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The Last Season of PeaceIt was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England’s most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes and minuets had long since given way to waltzes and fox-trots, the cream of young womanhood...

’We who are members of the single classes, unmarried and unattached, are always waiting to fall in love...Every day and each encounter holds out the possibility of that momentous flash which will change everything.’Constance Liddell, in her mid-forties, answers a personal column ad - ’Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks...

Roy Southgate and Reginald Conynghame-Jervis have nothing in common but their loneliness and their wartime memories.Roy, a retired milkman and Reggie, a former RAF Squadron Leader, are widowed on the same day. To assuage their grief, the vicar arranges for Roy to move in with Reggie as his unpaid manservant. To their surprise, they form a strange...

Long light evenings, swimming and tennis, striped cotton frocks...it’s summer term at Raeburn. New arrival Constance King hates her boarding school on sight, yet dreams of being accepted by the other girls. Instead, she finds a ferment of frustrated hopes mingled with excited expectations......