The Summer Before the Dark

As the summer begins, Kate Brown�attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children�has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was�living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring�no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally come truly of age.