The House at Tyneford

The House at Tyneford

2011 • 339 pages

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Fans of Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden and TV’s Downton Abbey will love this sweeping New York Times bestselling historical novel of love and loss. The start of an affair, the end of an era... 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.

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This is a beautifully told tale of love and loss. Please read it.

April 25, 2013

Not the kind of book I normally read, but I really liked it. Sad and beautiful. My only complant is that the pacing was a little odd to me at times. Recommend to fans of Downton Abbey or wartime historical fiction.

March 13, 2012

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