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"A vivid and poignant story about hope, loss, and reinvention."--"Psychologies" Magazine (UK)

"Both a love story set during the Second World War and an elegy to the English country house . . . the greatest pleasure of the novel is its stirring narrative and the constant sense of discovery."--"Times Literary Supplement" (London)

"A deeply touching and blissfully romantic elegy for a lost world."--"The Times" (London)

""The House at Tyneford" is a wonderful, old-fashioned novel that takes you back in time to the manor homes, aristocracy and domestic servants of England. In this setting, Natasha Solomons gives us a courageous heroine whose incredible love story will keep you in suspense until the final page."---Kathleen Grissom, author of"The Kitchen House"

""The House at Tyneford" is an exquisite tale of love, family, suspense, and survival. Capturing with astonishing detail and realism a vanished world of desire and hope trapped beneath rigid class convention, Natasha Solomons's stunning new novel tells the story of Elise Landau, a Jewish Austrian teenager from a family of artists, who is forced to flee her home in Vienna carrying only a guide to household management and her father's last novel, hidden on pages stuffed inside a viola. Elise hides as a parlor maid in a fine English country estate, but soon she discovers that passion can be found in the most unexpected places. Already a bestseller in Britain, American readers will thrill to "The House at Tyneford"."---Katherine Howe, author of"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane"

"Natasha Solomons has written a lovely, atmospheric novel full of charming characters and good, old fashioned storytelling. Fans of "Downton Abbey" and Kate Morton's "The Forgotten Garden" will absolutely adore "The House at Tyneford"."---Kristin Hannah, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Home Front"

A 19-year-old Jewish girl in 1938 Vienna escapes the Nazis by becoming a domestic servant in England at Tyneford, home of the aristocratic Rivers family, where she forms a friendship with the youngest son that changes them both. (general fiction).