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The Last Summer

Adams Family, Book 11

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The Last Summer

By: Mary Jane Staples
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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About this listen

Job and Jemima Hardy weren't Londoners by birth. They had both lived in a Sussex village until lack of work had sent Job and the family to Walworth - to a house in Stead Street. They got it cheap because of the poltergiest, but they were sensible folk and decided that eight shillings a week rent was a bargain, and - well - if the floors and doors sometimes moved a bit, they could live with it. They settled quickly into London life - particularly Jonathan, the eldest. Jonathan got a job at Camberwell Green, and it was there, in Lyons teashop, that he met Emma Somers, niece of Boots Adams. Over a long and hazy summer - the summer of 1939 - the two young people met, always at lunchtime and never allowing their friendship to progress too far.

Then, as the clouds of war gathered over Europe, Jonathan got his call-up papers. And the first alarms of conflict began to affect the Adams family in other ways. Boots, on the Officer's Reserve list, was called onto the staff of General Sir Henry Sims, and Polly Sims herself joined the Auxiliaries. Suddenly there was only a little time left for people to lead ordinary lives - and Jonathan Hardy and Emma Somers had to make decisions about their future.

©2011 Mary Jane Staples (P)2021 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction

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Polly is very well don’t hold with what she is doing but love the books so far, having to stop for a min because of how much it is costing me

Fantastic

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Love, love, love this family saga. On now to the next in the series 🙂

The Adam's family

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I am additive to this lovely, funny, sometimes sad series.
thanks, Mary and Annie

the best

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loved the story line plus the narrator was fabulous, I have listened to a variety of books that she has narrated.

brilliant

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I have become addicted to this series, This one did make me laugh, especially with Emma/Trudy talking like country folk. Am expecting it to become a bit gloomy. Although my family had funny wat stories also. Thank you.

Extremely humorous in serious times too

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