{"product_id":"the-summer-house-a-trilogy-9781589880863","title":"The Summer House: A Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A work of astonishing illumination and delight . . . so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience.\"--Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The subtlety of James, the comedy of Spark, the penetrating--and the deep, unflinching--eye of Jane Austen.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Summer House\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct perspectives, narrate three very witty novels concerning one disastrous wedding in the offing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Clothes in the Wardrobe\u003c\/i\u003e: Nineteen-year-old Margaret feels more trepidation than joy at the prospect of her marriage to forty-year-old Syl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Skeleton in the Cupboard\u003c\/i\u003e: Syl's mother, Mrs. Monro, doesn't know quite what to make of her son's life, but she knows Margaret should not marry him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fly in the Ointment\u003c\/i\u003e: And then there's Lili, the free spirit who is determined that the wedding shall not happen, no matter the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Thomas Ellis: Alice Thomas Ellis (1932-2005) was one of Britain's most widely admired writers. Her dozen novels include \u003ci\u003eThe 27th Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for a Booker Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Inn at the Edge of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1991 Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction. She also published many essays and edited books by Penelope Fitzgerald and Beryl Bainbridge. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492945498386,"sku":"9781589880863","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5575bf9a-a12b-475e-891b-e286d302266d.jpg?v=1730616696","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-summer-house-a-trilogy-9781589880863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}