Reviews

In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor

blankgarden's review

4.0

My review: https://theblankgarden.com/2017/09/29/it-was-the-memory-of-a-memory-by-now-the-hallmark-of-happiness-that-scene/

beasley's review

3.0

This is a beautifully written book. Taylor has a marvelous eye for the small telling detail and is able to shift seamlessly among the points of view of multiple characters. The actual story didn't do much for me but I can see why Taylor is admired as a writer. This novel was published and on the bestseller list in January of 1961, and there were a few interesting period touches: it was a big deal for one of the characters to buy a television, and an even bigger deal for several of the characters to watch television in the evening, instead of conversing in the drawing room or listening to classical music records; the nearness of WWII to several of the characters was also very interesting. I found myself wondering how the characters would have fared throughout the rest of the 1960s and into the 1970s and 1980s. They seemed much more grounded in the past than in the future.

lnatal's review

4.0

From BBC radio 4 Extra:
Kate, a well-heeled widow, causes a sensation in her conventional community in the late1950s when she falls for the charms of a younger man.

She attracts both the envy and pity of her family and friends as they speculate whether her new found happiness can last beyond one golden summer.

Elizabeth Taylor's love drama stars Kate Buffery as Kate.

Dermot ... Chris Garner
Aunt Ethel ...June Barrie
Charles .... Michael Fenton Stevens
Edwina ... Bonnie Hurren
Sir Alfred ....Bill Wallis
Lou .... Helen Weaver
Father Blizzard ... Paul Dodgson
Minty ... Nicole Arumugam
Tom ... Ben Tinniswood

Producer: Viv Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00764tb