In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor''s finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic.

''You taste of rain'', he said, kissing her. ''People say I married her for her money'', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him.

Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless DermotThen comes the return of Kate''s old friend Charles - intelligent, kind and now widowed, with his beautiful young daughter. Kate watches happily as their two families are drawn together, finding his presence reassuringly familiar, but slowly she becomes aware of subtle undercurrents that begin to disturb the calm surface of their friendship Before long, even she cannot ignore the gathering storm . . .

Format Häftad Omfång 272 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2006-04-06 ISBN 9781844083206