- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Orion (30 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752885782
- ISBN-13: 978-0752885780
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 465,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Catrin has written a wonderful stand alone novel inspired by her mother's experience fleeing Germany at the end of the Second World War. There has been a great deal of interest in the story with several national newspapers interested in covering it. Confirmed so far: TELEVISION Catrin is appearing in a documentary on local celebrities and the streets they lived called 'Stories From the Street' HTV HTV will also be covering the story behind the book for the regional news in Wales. RADIO BBC RADIO WALES will be interviewing Catrin on her new book (date tbc) PRESS There will be a major interview in the WESTERN MORNING NEWS There wil also be an interview in SWANSEA EVENING POST Review to come in YOURS magazine ONE LAST SUMMER has been chosen as the bookclub read for COUNTRY AND BORDER LIFE magazine. EVENTS Catrin will be doing formal signings in WH Smiths Pontypridd - Saturday 2 June Borders, Llantrisant - Tuesday June Waterstones, Swansea - Saturday 9 June WH Smiths, Cardiff - tbc And stocksignings in Waterstones (Cardiff) and Camelot Books (Cardiff) Catrin has also been asked to judge a writing competition at Borders, Swansea in July
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Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. Meanwhile, Hitler is ready to plunge the world into war, one that will wipe East Prussia from the face of the map. Charlotte is forced to leave her beloved homeland. By 1946, Charlotte finds herself in London with her young son, struggling to adapt to a new country and a new way of life. The secret of Charlotte's life is revealed when a book entitled One Last Summer is smuggled out of a Russian prison camp and tells of an affair between a Russian POW and a Prussian aristocrat. It becomes an instant international bestseller. Years on, Charlotte's granddaughter, Laura, comes across material relating to these events. She persuades her grandmother to embark on a journey into her past. Charlotte finally faces the demons that have haunted her for over half a century and recalls the one great love of her life. A moving and turbulent novel unlike anything Catrin Collier has written before but which has her trademark storytelling skill and her ability to portray characters with depth and sympathy.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An engaging and moving story,
By Hector Parkinson (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Last Summer (Paperback)
I have just finished a non-fiction book about the German people's experiences after 1945. A friend recommended me this as it takes its starting point as a young German woman growing up in East Prussia during the war, and her experiences as the Red Army steamroll across westwards in 1945. It is a love story between Charlotte and a Red Army POW who is working on her father's estate. The narrative is told through her diary and a backstory. The front story is Charlotte in the twilight years of her life, returning to the ancestral home, with her granddaughter.
It is a beautiful book and very movingly told. The introduction reveals that the book is based on the author's own family experiences, and this shines through as she deals with what is a very difficult subject with great sensitivity and aplomb. Top marks!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Doctor Zhivago has met it's match!!,
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This review is from: One Last Summer (Paperback)
This is the first Catrin Collier book I have read but I'm now very keen to read more. This book starts just before WW2 breaks out in Prussia, now Poland. The characters are full bloodied, lively and engaging and I was hooked by the fast-paced story. It is also a beautiful love story - I think Dr Zhivago has met it's match!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Epic stuff - think Doctor Zhivago,
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This review is from: One Last Summer (Paperback)
This is the best book I've read in a long while. Faster paced and having greater depth than an ordinary saga, it's up with the big ones. I'm sure that in time others will share my views. If a lesser book like Charlotte Grey can make it to the big screen, why can't something as wonderful as this?
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