Farewell Summer

It's a long languorous country summer in a small Ohio town. After many years spend away as a scholar and a writer Elizabeth Lane has returned to the setting of her most poignant childhood memories a town steeped in her family's long history. She comes to Sunbury to work on a book but finds she is haunted by one memory in particular. It was 1905 she was eleven and in love with her cousin Steve painfully watching his ill-fated romance with the beautiful Damaris. Looking back Elizabeth discovers a world of feeling what she knows belong more to adulthood than childhood and as she sees the tragic doomed love of Steve and Damaris she wishes she could be a child forever. Peopled with superbly realized characters steeped in the golden glow of an era fondly recalled and marked by the prodigious talent displayed in <i>. . .And Ladies of the Club</i> <i>Farewell Summer<i> is the moving tale of star-crossed love-innocent and elusive-and a young girl coming of age.