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Edith Wharton's tale of forbidden passion that caused a sensation on publication in 1917, read by Lydia Wilson.

Charity Royall is desperate to escape the dull, rural New England backwater where she works as a librarian - as well as her hard-drinking adoptive father. When a young city architect walks into the town, he seems to offer her hope for a new life. But will her past overshadow their relationship? And can their illicit affair ever bring her the freedom she craves?

Considered by some to be Wharton's finest work, Summer was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening, and darker themes of incest.

Today: as rumours fly about her friendship with city boy Lucius Harney, Charity fears what will happen if they reach her guardian, Mr Royall...

Reader: Lydia Wilson
Writer: Edith Wharton was famous for her novels including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921.
Abridger: Julian Wilkinson
Producer: Justine Willett