Heat Wave

It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing.

Pauline fears for Teresa, who is passionately in love with her husband, for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family, whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel's end.

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/06/1997
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.31w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780060928551

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/28/1997 pg. 36
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97

About the Author
Lively, Penelope: -
Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.