Long Summer Day Author:R. F. Delderfield Long Summer Day spans the period from 1902 to 1911, the charmed interval between Queen Victoria's death and the approach of WWI, a time that seemed indeed like a "long summer day" to the generation that lived through it. Among these was Paul Craddock, Squire of Shallowford and veteran of the Boer War. The peace that prevailed in England and ab... more »road contrasted sharply with the tumbling succession of dramatic events in Paul's own life--his marriage to Grace Lovell, the headstrong champion of the new women's rights movement; the daily personal drama of birth and death that seemed to mirror the country seasons, and his deeply fulfilling second marriage to the lovely Claire Derwent. But their idyllic way of life could not last forever. Soon it, too, would be swept away in the mightiest storm of hardship and destruction the word had ever known...« less