Long Summer Day
Published by Open Road Media
Beginning in post-Victorian England and spanning more than sixty years, R. F. Delderfield’s bestselling trilogy of twentieth-century England follows the life of a British family through two world wars and beyond
When Paul Craddock comes home to England in 1902, the wounded Boer War vet turns his back on his father’s scrap metal business and buys a sprawling estate in an isolated corner of Devon. From a neglected, overgrown farm, he begins to build his future—and the future of his family. As World War I takes its toll on Craddock and his loved ones, a second war is already casting its long shadow over their nation. But it is Craddock’s unfaltering devotion to the land and his beloved Shallowford that sustains him and his wife Claire as the years pass—years filled with love, loss, shattered dreams, and division within their own family. Through the coming eras, their children and their children’s children must learn to adapt to the changing times and say good-bye to a way of life that will never exist again.
When Paul Craddock comes home to England in 1902, the wounded Boer War vet turns his back on his father’s scrap metal business and buys a sprawling estate in an isolated corner of Devon. From a neglected, overgrown farm, he begins to build his future—and the future of his family. As World War I takes its toll on Craddock and his loved ones, a second war is already casting its long shadow over their nation. But it is Craddock’s unfaltering devotion to the land and his beloved Shallowford that sustains him and his wife Claire as the years pass—years filled with love, loss, shattered dreams, and division within their own family. Through the coming eras, their children and their children’s children must learn to adapt to the changing times and say good-bye to a way of life that will never exist again.
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