Title: Summer Lightning
First published: March 1, 2006
Description: In the small mining community of Santo Domingos a wedding is being planned in the English conslave there. The heat of night raises tensions in the community and infidelity threatens to destroy everything good in the small mining community. A moving love story set against the stormy background of an English community in Portugal Four young people are playing tennis beneath a hot Portuguese sun. A wedding has been arranged ? between Lucy and Andrew ? and the small community at San Domingos is looking forward to the celebrations. But for the people who live and work around the thriving copper mine, life is not so serene. The heat raises tensions, suspicions of infidelity flourish and tempers fray. Only Eduardo, the young Portuguese doctor, seems untroubled by the gathering storm.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Portugal, fiction, English, Fiction, Copper mines and mining, English fiction