Description
It's the spring of 1938 and no
longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is
forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a
parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on
the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But
war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of
Tyneford's young son, Kit, returns home, he and Elise strike up an
unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford-and Elise-forever.
About the Author
Natasha Solomons is a screenwriter and the internationally bestselling author of Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English. She lives with her husband in Dorset, England.
Praise for The House at Tyneford…
"Both a love story set during the Second World War and an elegy
to the English country house . . . the greatest pleasure of the novel
is its stirring narrative and the constant sense of discovery."
--Times Literary Supplement (London)
"A vivid and poignant story about hope, loss, and reinvention."
--Psychologies Magazine (UK)
"Natasha
Solomons has written a lovely, atmospheric novel full of charming
characters and good, old fashioned storytelling. Fans of Downton Abbey and Kate Morton''s The Forgotten Garden will absolutely adore The House at Tyneford."
--Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of Home Front
"The House at Tyneford
is a wonderful, old-fashioned novel that takes you back in time to the
manor homes, aristocracy and domestic servants of England. In this
setting, Natasha Solomons gives us a courageous heroine whose
incredible love story will keep you in suspense until the final page."
--Kathleen Grissom, author of The Kitchen House
"The House at Tyneford
is an exquisite tale of love, family, suspense, and survival.
Capturing with astonishing detail and realism a vanished world of
desire and hope trapped beneath rigid class convention, Natasha
Solomons''s stunning new novel tells the story of Elise Landau, a
Jewish Austrian teenager from a family of artists, who is forced to flee
her home in Vienna carrying only a guide to household management and
her father''s last novel, hidden on pages stuffed inside a viola. Elise
hides as a parlor maid in a fine English country estate, but soon she
discovers that passion can be found in the most unexpected places.
Already a bestseller in Britain, American readers will thrill to The House at Tyneford."
--Katherine Howe, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
"A deeply touching and blissfully romantic elegy for a lost world."
--The Times (London)
