An English Summer

Novel
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An English Summer / Ein englischer Sommer
Novel
Stow-on-the-Wold is a small idyllic town in the Cotswolds in the heart of England. Thirty-year-old Annett from Berlin is drawn here: she has unexpectedly inherited a small hotel that belonged to her grandmother. At the sight of the gently rolling hills, she immediately feels at home and decides to leave Berlin behind and make a new start: professionally and romantically. She soon meets the charming landscape architect Edward. There is mutual attraction, yet Edward seems hesitatant ...
Stow-on-the-Wold is a small idyllic town in the Cotswolds in the heart of England. Thirty-year-old Annett from Berlin is drawn here: she has unexpectedly inherited a small hotel that belonged to her grandmother. At the sight of the gently rolling hills, she immediately feels at home and decides to leave Berlin behind and make a new start: professionally and romantically. She soon meets the charming landscape architect Edward. There is mutual attraction, yet Edward seems hesitatant ...
2015, 362 pages
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Gabriele Diechler, born in Cologne, lives and works in the Salzkammergut, Austria. After many years of working as a screenwriter and dramaturge, she now mainly writes novels and YA-fiction.

Gabriele Diechler, born in Cologne, lives and works in the Salzkammergut, Austria. After many years of working as a screenwriter and dramaturge,...


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