Summer's Lease (1989)

Miniseries TV Show
Audience Score
76
Summer's Lease
NR November 1st, 1989Drama1 Seasons, 4 Episodes
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.

TV Show Details

Air Date:November 1st, 1989

Last Air Date:November 22nd, 1989

Network:PBS
Status:Ended

Genres:Drama

Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC, GBH