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This concluding book of Delderfield’s autobiographical Swann family saga follows the lives of the family beginning with Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and concluding with the opening of the war in August 1914. It traces the social changes and personal trials experienced by the family across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
First publish date: 1973
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: R. F. Delderfield
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