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Kate Heron, a wealthy, charming widow, has married a man ten years her junior, the attractive and feckless Dermot. Their special love arms them against the disapproval of conservative friends and neighbors--until the return of Kate's old friend Charles, intelligent, kind, and... Read Full Overview

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. 'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money',... Read Full Overview

Kate Heron, a wealthy, charming widow, has married a man ten years her junior, the attractive and feckless Dermot. Their special love arms them against the disapproval of conservative friends and neighbors-until the return of Kate's old friend Charles, intelligent, kind, and... Read Full Overview

In A Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels--revealing -- in a moving and haunting manner -- the ways of human love and its beautiful, tragic and piercingly funny moments.