Summertime

Literary Fiction

Author: Raffaella Barker

Venetia Summers is ‘buffered from single-motherhood’ by boyfriend David, but when work takes him to the tropics, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, e-mails languish unanswered, while children run amok, brother Desmond’s outrageous wedding takes over her home and new neighbour, Hedley Sale, makes his dastardly presence felt. It’s no surprise that Venetia ends up….Read More

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