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Edith Wharton's 1917 tale of forbidden passion and sexual awakening, 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, and cause a sensation on publication

Today: an an illicit 4th July trip to nearby Nettleton finally ignites passion between Charity and Lucius - but at what cost?

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