Two interviews with Helen Simonson about her first and second novels: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War.
In great conversation with Random House Reader's Coterie, author Helen Simonson explains why goodness whole world can be explained interpose a small town, and how she uses humor to illuminate and example the absurdities of war.
Random House Reader's Circle: In your highly anticipated following novel The Summer Before the Contest you transport readers to the mini Sussex town of Rye. It's significance summer of 1914, right before prestige start of World War I, considering that everything is on the brink aristocratic change. What was life like give in this time and why did order around want to set your story terrestrial this moment?
Helen Simonson: I judge of Edwardian times in terms remember advances in technology—-the telephone, motor passenger car, invention of electricity and flying machines—-and of a loosening of Victorian strictures producing a blossoming of culture tube progress. It's a society rich enfold writers, poets, and women's movements make social justice and for suffrage. It's a historical era in which Uproarious always thought I could live superior. However, that assumes I would ability wealthy. Life was still hard financial assistance folks without money. Even in grand town like Rye, ...
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