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Summer's Lease is a novel by Sir John Mortimer, author of the Rumpole novels, which is set predominantly in Italy. It was first published in 1988 and made into a British television mini-series, first shown in 1989.
- John Clifford Mortimer
- 1988
Summer's Lease is a British television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC2 in 1989. It is based on John Mortimer's novel of the same title, adapted by the author.
- Drama
Sep 22, 2017 · It is based on John Mortimer's novel of the same title. When Molly Pargeter (Susan Fleetwood) rents a villa in the Italian Tuscan hills, what should be a carefree holiday isn't quite as...
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- Kate Patskevich
While on a family holiday in Tuscany, Molly Pargeter becomes preoccupied with the disappearance of their villa's owner and his connections to the local waterboard mafia much to the chagrin of her staid husband and swinger father. Stars. Susan Fleetwood. John Gielgud. Michael Pennington.
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- 1991-05-12
- Drama, Mystery
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Jun 10, 1985 · Summer's Lease. John Mortimer. 3.55. 835 ratings85 reviews. The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord. Genres Fiction Italy Mystery British Literature Literature Humor Novels. ...more.
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Mar 16, 2010 · Masters of their craft, Sir John Gielgud and Susan Fleetwood in the lavish BBC screen adaptation of Sir John Mortimer's witty novel, 'Summer's Lease', about upper-class Brits caught in intrigue...
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Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman.
