# Heat Wave

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- Authors: [Penelope Lively](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-11-03

## Description

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing - and with his female copy editor - and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax. In Heat Wave , Penelope Lively gives us a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves.

## Editions

### Heat Wave

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-682-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB

### Heat Wave

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-883-4
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB