Books with title The greengage summer

First Edition of this famous classic English novel. Coming of age story that takes place in France's wine country in 1960. 5 children are left on their own to figure things out. On the copyright page it says the only other version was a partial printing in Ladies Home Journal. The paper dustjacket is a little fragile (like many books, in the 40s and 50s, still using wartime paper.) Turquoise decorated covers.

While the Grey family is visiting the battlefields of France, their mother becomes seriously ill. Their father is far away, busy with his work as an explorer. So thirteen year-old Cecil is left virtually alone with her brothers and sisters in a French chateau-hotel, owned by Mademoiselle Zizi. While Cecil watches from the sidelines, her beautiful older sister Joss falls in love with Eliot, the charming English gentleman who appoints himself the family's guardian. And while the greengages grow ripe and sweet in the sun, the sense of danger and mystery increases.