Heat Wave

It is a long hot summer at World's End a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling and the larger part is occupied by her daughter Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband Maurice a writer whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing. <p> Pauline fears for Teresa who is passionately in love with her husband for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel's end.