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A powerful story of siblings, secrets, misunderstandings and passion played out over one last, hot summer. Read by Sian Thomas.

Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the change wrought by time across the generations.

Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks.

Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end.

While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents approach each other, the children watch and come to their own conclusions.

Read by Sian Thomas.

Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute observer of character, time and place and the most published short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Abridged by Sally Marmion.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in September 2015.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 Aug 2021 02:20

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Dive into Summer

Dive into Summer

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