Heat Wave
$32.15
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
A novel of complex relations and a long hot summer, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
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 d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141196824 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141196823 |
| Author: | Penelope Lively |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 156g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive… very moving
Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive… very moving – Susan Hill
About The Author
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.
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