At The Edge Of Summer: A Novel

"1911: In the wake of her father's death and her mother's disappearance, fifteen-year-old Clare Ross is sent away from her home in Scotland to Mille Mots, the idyllic ch teau of the CrUpet family in France. There she finds solace in a friendship with Luc, the only son of the CrUpets, who teaches her to draw out in the rambling garden of the ch teau. But with the return of her grandfather, a scholar who never stays in one place for long, Clare is forced to leave the comforts of Mille Mots. Devastated by her departure, Luc's letters and the memory of that one summer keep her grounded as she moves with her grandfather from Portugal to Africa and everywhere in between. Years later, a war rages across Europe, and Luc and Clare have drifted apart, Clare to the Glasgow School of Art, Luc to the bloody First Battle of the Aisne in 1914. Clare decides to help the war effort by volunteering in a Paris studio, making facial prosthetics for injured French soldiers. When a particularly surly young man comes through the clinic, his face is unrecognizable to Clare, but there's something very familiar about him. In the midst of war, and after so many years apart, will Luc and Clare be able to reca