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Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive... very moving (Susan Hill )
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Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing - and with his female copy editor - and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax.
In Heat Wave, Penelope Lively gives us a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves.
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This extraordinarily good novel by the Booker Prize Winner, Penelope Lively, centres on Pauline, a divorced freelance editor in her fifties; it is early May and the beginning of a blisteringly hot summer. Pauline is spending the summer at her cottage, World's End, and the adjoining cottage is being occupied by her daughter, Teresa, her son-in-law, Maurice and their toddler son, Luke. Whilst Maurice writes a book about the British tourist trade, Pauline edits a book about romantic love and watches as the relationship between her daughter and Maurice slowly unravels.
Pauline's concern is aroused when Maurice invites his friend, James, and James' girlfriend, Carol, to the cottage, to help with his book. Pauline sees that Maurice is sexually involved with Carol and, knowing her daughter is deeply in love with her husband, she anticipates the unhappiness that is in store for Teresa. As Pauline watches Maurice becoming more attracted to Carol, she finds she cannot avoid re-living the years she spent with Teresa's father, Harry,despite his constant infidelities, and the feelings of intense jealousy and isolation Pauline felt then, threaten to spill over into the present time. As the sun gets hotter, the roads dustier and the wheat in the fields grows higher, the intensity of emotions increase until a climax is reached and a tragedy occurs.
This is an intelligent, compassionate and beautifully written novel which centres on love, the death of love and the vagaries of the human heart.
4.5 Stars.
Also recommended by the same author: Moon Tiger (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pauline's concern is aroused when Maurice invites his friend, James, and James' girlfriend, Carol, to the cottage, to help with his book. Pauline sees that Maurice is sexually involved with Carol and, knowing her daughter is deeply in love with her husband, she anticipates the unhappiness that is in store for Teresa. As Pauline watches Maurice becoming more attracted to Carol, she finds she cannot avoid re-living the years she spent with Teresa's father, Harry,despite his constant infidelities, and the feelings of intense jealousy and isolation Pauline felt then, threaten to spill over into the present time. As the sun gets hotter, the roads dustier and the wheat in the fields grows higher, the intensity of emotions increase until a climax is reached and a tragedy occurs.
This is an intelligent, compassionate and beautifully written novel which centres on love, the death of love and the vagaries of the human heart.
4.5 Stars.
Also recommended by the same author: Moon Tiger (Penguin Modern Classics)
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