Summer - Edith Wharton

A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts

Seventeen-year-old
Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking
adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour
increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the
summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark
on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded
by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a
sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning
the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.