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Heat Wave (Paperback)

by Penelope Lively (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (29 May 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014025692X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140256925
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152,891 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Pauline is filled with dread at the passion that Teresa has for Maurice. During the long, hot summer, she remembers the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her youth, and she is determined to prevent the same happening to her daughter - at any cost.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lively puts you right in the action, 6 Mar 2001
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Penelope Liveley is one of those rare writers where the structure of the novel falls away and you as a reader seem to co-exist with the central characters. This immediacy is one that few writers manage- David Lodge, a very different writer perhaps,masters the same effect. In HeatWave, Pauline, a book editor and main character, senses her daughter, who is living next door,is going to suffer the same sort of marital betrayal and she herself once experienced. It is all set in two adjacent cottages in the middle of a field somewhere in an unusually baking hot English countryside. The plot sort of simmers until there is a somewhat uncharacteristically dramatic ending for Lively at least. But Lively novels are not sold on her plots but on her realism. You could be there in the kitchen reading the Saturday Telegraph and listening to Radio 4 while it all unfolds. It would be so easy to bypass Lively as an author just for slightly middle class, slighlty intellectual women. You would be the poorer for doing so.
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