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The story of a middle-aged woman's search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences. A novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessing's brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, 'The Summer Before the Dark' has been hailed by some as Lessing's best book.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Summer Before the Dark
• Author: Doris Lessing
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780586088999
• ISBN: 0586088997
• ID: 04106629
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 196 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. November 1995

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