A house in Flanders - Michael Jenkins

In 1951 Michael Jenkins, then 14 years old, spent the summer with "the aunts in Flanders." His
"aunts" were a group of elderly women whose connection to his
family had never been explained but they immediately embraced him and he quickly
became entwined in the lives of an extended family of aunts, uncles and
cousins. The warmth of their life awakes Michael to the complicated world of
relationships as he falls in love for the first time. Michael Jenkins's vivid
memoir of a summer that changed his life has become a much-loved classic,
with its evocative portraits of his aunts, the raw memories of two world wars
that still scar the Flanders plain and Michael's unraveling of the secret at
the heart of this family.