The Summer Before The Dark

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 236 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The story of a middle-aged womans search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kates new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences. A novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessings brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, The Summer Before the Dark has been hailed by some as Lessings best book.

ISBN: 9780586088999