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.
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