Summer Will Show

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Genres: Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; LGBT Lesbian

Synopsis

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'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.

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian

'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

© Sylvia Townsend Warner 1936 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Release date: June 8, 2011

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Print pages: 352