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The Summer Before the Dark

of Doris Lessing

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3.61 (2083 reviews)
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A middle-aged woman's search for freedom, this is classic Lessing, here given a stunning new image. 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. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.

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Fiction Fiction Literature Novels Nobel Prize British Literature Literary Fiction Classics Feminism Womens Contemporary

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 236 pages
  • Publisher Paladin
  • Publication Date June 17th 2002
  • First Publication 10/30/73
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780586088999
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
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