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| Original title | The Summer Before the Dark |
|---|---|
| Language | Norwegian |
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| Year | Den Norske Bokklubben, 1976 |
| First Published | 1973 |
| ISBN | 82-525-0508-8 |
| Amazon ID | B0DMYJPG56 |
| Goodreads ID | 22846286 |
| Google Books ID | X8ebtQEACAAJ |
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Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman’s life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.
As the summer begins, Kate Brown—attractive, intelligent, forty–five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children—has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer’s end the woman she was—living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring—no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate’s journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally and truly come of age.