01390nam a22002057a 4500 20220517094128.0 220517b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0586088997 AL English 23 823.914 LESS Doris Lessing 37520 Summer Before the Dark London Paladin Grafton Books 1990 236 p. PB 19.5x13 cm. The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate’s new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences. A novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessing’s brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, ‘The Summer Before the Dark’ has been hailed by some as Lessing’s best book. Women--Fiction 37521 LESSING (DORIS) 37522 ddc GF 222960 222960 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2013-03-24 0 823.914 LESS GF02349 2022-05-17 00:00:00 2022-05-17 GF