num_pages: 256
description: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
language: English
title: The Summer Before the Dark
titlecomplete: The Summer Before the Dark
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Womens, Literature, Feminism, Novels, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Classics, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2453
publisher: Vintage