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Published in the 1950’s, Greengage Summer tells the story of a family of children who leave their typical life for a summer and experience an unfamiliar adult world without traditional adult guidance. Godden’s young characters reveal that these are children who have already been moving toward mature perspectives in life, perhaps that their parents and regular guardians do not realize. The children remain realistically children and their display of understanding of events around them is convincin
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Charming, coming of age story, based on author's own life. It reminded me a lot of the Durrells, not least the narrator's descriptions of her siblings. Dropped a few points because I found it a bit clunky to read.
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