Summer Hill by Joseph Hone (RB166)

Published 1990: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with silver titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 943 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on the covers and dust jacket consistent with age. (RB166)

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Covers three generations of one family, set in Ireland, London, France, Hollywood, through the Boer War, the Dublin uprising of 1917 and World War I, but all centred around an elegant family mansion in Ireland, Summer Hill. The author also wrote "The Private Sector" and "Children of the Country".

Joseph Hone is the author of eight novels, including The Private Sector, Summer Hill and Firebird, and four books of travel writing, from The Dancing Waiters to Duck Soup in the Black Sea, both of which gather material commissioned during his time as overseas correspondent for the BBC. He lived and and taught in Oxfordshire in England for a number of years. His autobiography Wicked Little Joe was published by The Lilliput Press in 2009. He passed away in August 2016.

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