''A Place in the Country'' is a 1969 novel by the British writer

Sarah Gainham Rachel Ames, née Stainer (London, 1 October 1915 – Petronell, Austria, 24 November 1999) was a British novelist and journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Gainham. She is perhaps best known for her 1967 novel ''Night Falls on the City ...

. It was the second in her Vienna trilogy following on from the popular first novel ''

Night Falls on the City ''Night Falls on the City'' is a 1967 novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham. A commercial and critical success, it was the first of her Vienna trilogy followed by '' A Place in the Country'' (1969) and ''Private Worlds'' (1971). Marking a ch ...

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Synopsis

The novel follows Julia Homburg, once a celebrated actress and now sheltering in the countryside having survived the devastation of the

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. She encounters a

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officer Robert Inglis serving in

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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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* 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. 1969 British novels Novels by Sarah Gainham Novels set in the 1940s Novels set in Vienna Weidenfeld & Nicolson books {{1960s-novel-stub