The Summer Before the Dark

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman’s life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.

As the summer begins, Kate Brown–attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children–has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer’s end the woman she was–living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring–no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate’s journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally and truly come of age.

Author: Doris Lessing
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/14/2009
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780307390622
Language: English