Summer Will Show
Jan 2021 · Penguin UK
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'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian
'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'
Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution.
'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters
'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman
'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'
Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution.
'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters
'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman
About the author
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.
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