Name: The Summer Before the Dark
ISBN: 9780307390622

Doris Lessing

With her children grown and her husband away in America for several months, Kate Brown finds herself alone for the first time in twenty years.

The Summer Before the Dark

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.

Ioana Kardos

Amro Gebreel

The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Summer Before the Dark

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