In a Summer Season - Hardcover

Taylor, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701119772 ISBN 13: 9780701119775

Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1977

Synopsis

Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless Dermot. Their special love arms them against the disapproval of conservative friends and neighbours - until the return of Kate's old friend Charles, intelligent, kind, now widowed with a beautiful daughter.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born and educated in Reading. After leaving school she worked as a governess and later in a library. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire.

Review:

?It?s smashing ?When you?ve finished In a Summer Season, you are totally fired up to read every book that Taylor ever wrote? Val Hennessy

Witty, hilarious, astringent, devastating - her impeccable style can do anything and with seemingly effortless ease―Neel Mukherjee

One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century―ANTONIA FRASER

One of Taylor's best novels―NEW STATESMAN

Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all―ANNE TYLER

Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one's own experience―ELIZABETH BOWEN

?One of Taylor?s best novels? Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0701119772
• ISBN 13: 9780701119775
• Binding: Hardcover