A Summer To Decide concludes Pamela Hansford Johnson’s highly acclaimed trilogy, the first two volumes of which are Too Dear For My Possessing and An Avenue Of Stone.
Helena, the presiding genius of the trilogy, dies near the outset of this book, leaving only her indomitable spirit to help her children struggle on without her. For her daughter, Charmian, having just given birth to a daughter herself, and trapped in a marriage to the now drunken and womanizing Evan, it is truly a struggle; one which is relieved only by her absorption in her child, by Evan’s inevitable downfall, and by the passionate concern of her half-brother, Claud.
Pamela Hansford Johnson is in confident control of her art and in all her characters – in Evan and his pathetic mother, in Charmian and Claud – she gives us the true and deep understanding of human nature which enriches all her novels.
‘A most impressive achievement’ Isabel Quigley, Biographer
- ISBN10 1447214447
- ISBN13 9781447214441
- Publish Date 16 December 2011 (first published April 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 November 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Bello
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 424
- Language English