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Summer In February

Jonathan Smith

Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning in to the BBC's live radio broadcast. But as he approaches the end of his assault, the speech suddenly dissolves into incoherence when he stumbles over a name - a name he normally takes such pains to avoid - that takes him back forty years to a special time and a special place.

Summer in February is a disturbing and moving re-creation of a celebrated Edwardian artistic community enjoying the last days of a golden age soon to be shattered by war. As resonant and understated as The Go-Between, it is a love story of beauty, deprivation and tragedy.

  • Classification : Romance
  • Pub Date : FEB 10, 2013
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 368
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349139128
  • Price : INR 699
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Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith was educated in Wales and at St John's College Cambridge. KBO: The Churchill Secret his seventh novel is being adapted into a major ITV drama. An earlier novel Summer in February was made into a feature film starring Dan Stevens and Dominic Cooper.

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