A Summer in the Country

by Marcia Willett | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0312997159 Global Overview for this book
Registered by nikel27 of -- Irgendwo / Somewhere --, Hessen Germany on 12/16/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by nikel27 from -- Irgendwo / Somewhere --, Hessen Germany on Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Amazon Editorial Review:
Marcia Willett’s previous novel, A Week in Winter, her first to be published in the United States, received a rousing welcome from readers and reviewers alike. Her new novel, A Summer in the Country, introduces an equally beguiling cast of characters whose lives become intricately entwined at Foxhole, a charming and cozy country house on the wild edges of the Devon moors.

Brigid Foster has inherited Foxhole from her father, and has created two guest cottages, which she rents during the holidays to tourists. Brigid’s delight at welcoming Louise Parry, one of her regular summer visitors, is tempered by the irritating presence of Brigid’s monumentally judgmental mother, Frummie. Having abandoned Foxhole (and Brigid) forty years earlier, Frummie makes no secret of her disdain for the glorious natural splendor of her surroundings, nor of her preference for Brigid’s flightly but fabulous half-sister, Jemima. Jemima, meanwhile, has problems of her own.

When a stranger begins lurking in the isolated byways of the lonely countryside, Brigid turns to her oddly elusive father-in-law for comfort and protection. But both Brigid and Louise Parry are hiding certain essential facts, and each woman’s fragile sense of haven and security is threatened by disclosure. A Summer in the Country is the story of the enduring, but often painful love that exists between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives. It describes with exquisite sensitivity and tenderness the precarious journey each of us undertakes as one generation makes way for the next, as each indelible and priceless relationship grows, changes, blossoms, or dies. Marcia Willett writes novels that will last.


Journal Entry 2 by nikel27 at BookObsessed Exchange, Ginsheim -- Controlled Releases on Monday, February 16, 2009

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Journal Entry 3 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Thursday, May 14, 2009
The back cover compares this author to Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy—two authors I have enjoyed very much. I received this book in my birthday package from Nicole, and I'm looking forward to reading it.

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