Heat Wave

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780141196824 Author(s): Penelope Lively Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2011 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 192 Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Description: A novel of complex relations and a long hot summer, new to Penguin Modern ClassicsPauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing - and with his female copy editor - and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax.In Heat Wave, Penelope Lively gives us a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves.

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