The story of a middleaged womans search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 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. Kates new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences. A novel of selfdiscovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessings brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, The Summer Before the Dark has been hailed by some as Lessings best book.

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 320 g; Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 16

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