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One Last Summer [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Catrin Collier (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Magna Large Print Books; Large type edition edition (15 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750528931
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750528931
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,775,681 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Catrin Collier was born into a close Welsh family in 1948 - very aware of her dual heritage. The war was recent, her mother German, her father Welsh. She loved her German grandmother, spent summers with her in Germany, and couldn't understand how ordinary Germans had allowed the monstrous Nazi regime to flourish. After working in various jobs, she became a full-time writer in 1994. In 1995 she accompanied her mother when she returned to East Prussia (now Poland) for the first time in fifty years. There she read the diaries that her mother and grandmother had kept and talked about life under the Nazis. ONE LAST SUMMER is the result of those conversations. She lives with her husband in Wales. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging and moving story, 6 Jun 2007
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!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Epic stuff - think Doctor Zhivago, 17 Feb 2008
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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor Zhivago has met it's match!!, 13 Aug 2007
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!
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