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Summer - Edith Wharton. - short and strange

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Yes! I think Wharton called it her 'hot Ethan' – she wrote it six years after Ethan Frome. Penguin Classics brought out a lovely new edition in 2019.

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Bonjour Tristesse! Still have my 25p Penguin copy. We all started reading her as student nurses in the early 1970s. The books skinny enough to slip behind your apron when night sister came round.

My hot summer read would be The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

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The Awakening is a great suggestion – steamy early feminism in Louisiana – and so progressive for 1899! https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14458/9780142437322

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