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Summer lightning

Four young people are playing tennis beneath a hot Portuguese sun. A wedding has been arranged between two of them - Lucy and Andrew - and the small English community at San Domingos is looking forward to the celebrations. But among the people who live and work around the thriving copper mine, life is not as serene as it seems.

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  • "In the small mining community of Santo Domingos a wedding is being planned in the English conslave there. The heat of night raises tensions in the community and infidelity threatens to destroy everything good in the small mining community. A moving love story set against the stormy background of an English community in Portugal Four young people are playing tennis beneath a hot Portuguese sun. A wedding has been arranged? between Lucy and Andrew? and the small community at San Domingos is looking forward to the celebrations. But for the people who live and work around the thriving copper mine, life is not so serene. The heat raises tensions, suspicions of infidelity flourish and tempers fray. Only Eduardo, the young Portuguese doctor, seems untroubled by the gathering storm."
  • "Lucy is Andrew's loving fiancee, but Andrew flirts with her best friend. The year is 1913, and the English expatriates living in the small Portuguese copper-mining town of San Domingos are singularly self-absorbed, uncomprehending, and unappreciative of the people among whom they live and work. Threatened uprisings among the miners and a dangerous underground explosion, with the depradations by wolves and the eternal heat and scarcity of water, are merely irritants to their pleasure-seeking way of life."
  • "Four young people are playing tennis beneath a hot Portuguese sun. A wedding has been arranged between two of them - Lucy and Andrew - and the small English community at San Domingos is looking forward to the celebrations. But among the people who live and work around the thriving copper mine, life is not as serene as it seems."@en

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Historical Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Summer lightning"
  • "Summer lightning"@en