SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK, THE

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.