In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics)

by Elizabeth Taylor (Author), Elizabeth Russell Taylor (Introduction)

New
Paperback
2006
$11.49

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 Dermot. Then 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 . . .

Synopsis

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 Dermot. Then 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 . . .

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Virago
Published: 06 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 1844083209
ISBN 13: 9781844083206
Book Overview: * 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.

Media Reviews

Witty, hilarious, astringent, devastating - her impeccable style can do anything and with seemingly effortless ease * Neel Mukherjee *
`One of Taylor's best novels' Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman
`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
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 the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century * ANTONIA FRASER *
One of Taylor's best novels * NEW STATESMAN *

Author Bio

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar.