3 edition of Summer"s lease found in the catalog.
Summer"s lease
John Rothenstein
Published
1965
by Hamish Hamilton in London
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | John Rothenstein. |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 260p. : |
| Number of Pages | 260 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL16401036M |
Check out this great listen on It’s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she . The debut novel from award-winning poet Sara Clark, Summer's Lease is a darkly comic meditation on mortality, loss, and the passage of time. When Alex Warren, a lifelong hermit, is forced to sell his old family home, he takes one final trip around the property, remembering his life as it has been, and particularly his confused relationship with his now-deceased parents, Bill 4/5(6).
Summers Lease, Paperback by Mortimer, John Clifford, ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $ (p) ISBN
"Summer's Lease" was the first John Mortimer book that I ever read and it transported me to Tuscany then- and it does so every time that I've read it since. The film version manages to capture much of the magic of the book in a story about a slightly dysfunctional family vacationing in a somehow sinister, rental villa in Tuscany. Summer's Lease is well up there on my richer scale of books enjoyed, I have read it many times and will do so again and again. It has been my companion on many holidays in Italy. The plot is a little thin, which has its benefits in allowing the characters to develope and to be enjoyed as they gell into the story line providing many situations /5(33).
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Summer's Lease is well up there on my richer scale of books enjoyed, I have read it many times and will do so again and again. It has been my companion on many holidays in Italy. The plot is a little thin, which has its benefits in allowing the characters to develope and to be enjoyed as they gell into the story line providing many Summers lease book /5(36).
Summer's Lease is well-written, and makes an entertaining good read. The book is almost identical to the TV miniseries, with only a few extra scenes, but greater exposition. Some miniseries viewers have complained they could not follow all the plot threads/5(17). Summer's Lease is well-written, and makes an entertaining good read.
The book is almost identical to the TV miniseries, with only a few extra scenes, but greater exposition. Some miniseries viewers have complained they could not follow all the plot threads. The book does a much better job of sorting out who did what to whom and why.
Recommended/5(17). A gorgeous book from the bestselling author of Fix You and the Love in London series. Look out for more in The Shakespeare Sisters with A Winter's Tale, Absent in the Spring and By Virtue Fall now available from Carrie Elks.
PRAISE FOR SUMMER'S LEASE A sizzling treat to curl up with on your lounger & savour. - Gem Bee A summer scorcher of a book!/5().
Summer's Lease book. Read 67 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family /5(67).
PRAISE FOR SUMMER'S LEASE A sizzling treat to curl up with on your lounger & savour. - Gem Bee A summer scorcher of a book. - Rachel's Random Reads A Summers lease book summer beach read.
- Louise White (goodreads reviewer) An amazing story that will capture your imagination and warm your heart. A brilliant 5 Stars. - Clare Roden Romantic and heartfelt/5(73). Summers Lease is the first book in the The Shakespeare Sisters series, and the author delivered the all-round enjoyable read that I have come to expect from her writing.
- The rich movie star and the impoverished writer It would make a good story.4/5. Part droll domestic-comedy, part ironic psychological-suspense: the misadventures of a British housewife whose dream of an exotic family idyll&#;summer vacation is an Italian villa&#;turns somewhat sour.
Molly Pargeter, despite non-enthusiasm from lawyer-husband Hugh and oldest daughter Henrietta (a would-be punk-rocker), is ecstatic about taking a summer's lease.
Adapted by John Mortimer from his own novel, the British miniseries Summer's Lease starred Susan Fleetwood as British housewife Molly Pargeter who, with her family, spent an Category: Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Television. With Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington, Rosemary Leach.
From the DVD box: The minute she sets eyes on it, Molly Pargeter knows that the Tuscan Villa she has found to lease is perfect for her family's summer holiday. She is powerfully drawn to its rustic beauty and to the enigma of its absentee landlord.
Never mind that her husband and /10(13). PRAISE FOR SUMMER'S LEASE A sizzling treat to curl up with on your lounger & savour. - Gem Bee A summer scorcher of a book. - Rachel's Random Reads A perfect summer beach read. - Louise White (goodreads reviewer) An amazing story that will capture your imagination and warm your heart.
A brilliant 5 Stars. - Clare Roden Romantic and : Carrie Elks. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Bookplateleaf Boxid IA Boxid_2 CHBL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Pages: John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.
SUMMER’S LEASE is not a work of unrelieved suspense. John Mortimer devotes a generous amount of space to Molly’s aged father’s comic affairs and self-parodying literary “Jottings”. About Summer’s Lease.
The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord. Summer’s Lease. The Shakespeare Sisters Book #1.
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So when a scandal hits, the only place he can think of to hide is in his parents’ empty villa in Italy. Summer's Lease (Unabridged) audiobook, by John Mortimer It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays.
Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly.
"Summer Lease" is his best book as far as I am concerned. The protagonist is a woman named Molly Pargeter. One might not beleive the creater of Mrs. Rumpole (She Who Must Be Obeyed)could manage an authentic female protagonist, but he by: 4.
Summer's Lease, which was made into popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate, humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable. It will be adored by readers of /5(40).
Summer's Lease, which was made into popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate, humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable.
It will be adored by readers of P.G Wodehouse and P.D. James. ' The perfect book to snuggle up with when you have an evening spare with nothing but a hot chocolate or glass of wine to keep you company Absolutely adore it beyond belief!' Rachale's Reads A free summer holiday in a beautiful villa in Lake Como.
5/5(2).Summer’s Lease – Carrie Elks. Author Luisa Rivas-Martinez Published on July 8, J One word for this story - romantic. Recently there have been so many books heavily charged with sex, but this one centers on what's important, the romance. The love story is front and center, even if it starts with hostility and insults.
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