Penelope Lively
Heat Wave: An Intimate Novel of Mother, Daughter, and a Summer's Betrayal
It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his edit...
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