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Edith Wharton's tale of forbidden passion and sexual awakening that created a sensation on publication in 1917.

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: Charity Royall is bored of her dull life in North Dormer. But when city architect Lucius Harney walks in one June day, Charity begins to dream of a new life...

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