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      Heat Wave

      by Penelope Lively
      Published
      Sep 1996
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      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.

      Pauline 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.

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      Jan 1997 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060928551 ISBN10 0060928557
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      Jun 1997 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140256925 ISBN10 014025692X
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      First Edition Jan 1996 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060174767 ISBN10 0060174765
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      Nov 1996 Soundings Audio Books ISBN13 9781860422232 ISBN10 1860422233
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      Jan 1997 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780783819884 ISBN10 0783819889
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