A Place in the Country (novel)

A Place in the Country

First edition (UK)
Author	Sarah Gainham
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) Holt Rinehart (US)
Publication date	1969
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Night Falls on the City
Followed by	Private Worlds

A Place in the Country is a 1969 novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham.^[1] It was the second in her Vienna trilogy following on from the popular first novel Night Falls on the City.^{[2] [3]}

Synopsis[]

The novel follows Julia Homburg, once a celebrated actress and now sheltering in the countryside having survived the devastation of the Second World War. She encounters a British Army officer Robert Inglis serving in Vienna with the Allied Occupation Forces. Meanwhile, from her old friend the journalist returns Georg Kerenyi returns half-starved from the East.

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Bibliography[]

• Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Husband, Janet G. & Husband, Jonathan F. Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association, 2009.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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