Summer's Lease

Summer's Lease

1989
Summer's Lease
Summer's Lease

Summer's Lease

7.5 | en | Drama

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. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP4  The Urbino Trail
Nov. 22,1989
The Urbino Trail

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EP3  A Battlefield
Nov. 15,1989
A Battlefield

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EP2  Where the Water Goes
Nov. 08,1989
Where the Water Goes

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EP1  Villa to Let
Nov. 01,1989
Villa to Let

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7.5 | en | Drama
Synopsis

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. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

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Cast

Susan Fleetwood , John Gielgud , Michael Pennington

Director

Tim Harvey

Producted By

BBC , WGBH