Book Details
Pauline 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
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Lively, Penelope
- ISBN13 9780141196824
- ISBN10 0141196823
- Pages 184
- Collection Modern classic #
- Published 2011
- Language English
Heat wave
- Author Penelope Lively
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN 9780141196824
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