Heat Wave Author:Penelope Lively It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing. — Paulin... more »e fears for Teresa, who is passionately in love with her husband, for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family, whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel's end.« less
Anyone who has had their boyfriend or spouse cheat on them must read this book. The author has such an understanding of women's feelings. The book is heart wrenching. I couldn't sleep for two nights while reading the story . And I cried a lot.