When summer comes door Helen Naylor

About the book

Title: When summer comes
Author: Helen Naylor
Source: www. cambridge.org
Number of pages: 80 pages
Number of chapters: 16 chapters
Published when?: 1991
Published where?: Published by the press syndicate of the Cambridge University

Explanation of the title: The summer comes, and it is very hot Steven and Anna are going on holiday
Fiction yes/no: It is fiction, because it could be a true story
Point of view: Anna and Steven are going on holiday to Polreath they meet Tristan. Anna is in love with Tristan, but she chooses to stay with her husband.


Desciption of main character(s): Anna and Steven are both very kind. They have an open relationship. Anna loves her job as a nurse. Steven does not get angry and jealous quickly. Tristan is also very kind man. He want that people enjoying in Polreath

Personal comment: I like this book, because you can recognise yourself in this story. The book is also very exciting
Open or close ending: A open ending. You do not know how the story is ending

Summary
Anna is happily married with Steven for 10 years. They live in London. Anna is a nurse in a hospital. Steven works for an advertising agency.
Because it is very hot in Londen, they decide to go on holidays for three weeks to a place called Polreath.
Nevertheless, Steven wonders if this is not a bad time to go on holiday, because the agency has just lost an important client.

After a long journey by car, Anna and Steven arrive in Polreath. They see a wonderful village by the sea.
Steven and Anna meet Tristan, the owner of the park, and like him very much.

Anna and Steven have fun in Polreath, they swim by the beach, they have dinner, and they have long walks. Tristan organizes boat-trips, and Steven goes fishing with Tristan.

One day, Steven and Tristan are fishing on Tristan’s boat. When he comes back to the Dolphin cottage to Anne, he sees that something is wrong by the look on Anna’s face.
Anna had a phone call from Steven’s work: he must call the office back instantly.
Steven calls his work. They tell him he has to come back to London for two days. Steven is very annoyed about this. He leaves Poltreath and goes to London.

In the meanwhile, Anna and Tristan have a great time.
They have dinner, make long walks on the beach. One day, they kiss each other.
Anna and Tristan decide to say nothing to Steven about the kiss.
The next day, Steven comes back to Polreath.
Steven lost his job, because a different company took over the advertising agency.
He is not sad about losing his job.
Anna and Steven have fun with each other. They think they might move to Polreath.
Anna and Steven can buy the cottage from Tristan.

On one day, there comes a girl to Polreath. The girl is Jill, Tristan’s ex- girlfriend. Anna never new that Tristan had a girlfriend before.
Anna is very interested in Jill, she wants to meet Jill.

After some few days, Jill has to go, because she had a new job in Singapore.

Tristan and Anna go fishing. They talk about their relationship, and what they have to do.

The holiday is ending; Anna and Steven have to go back to London. They want to sell their apartment.
A couple days later, Steven comes back to Polreath, to look after some matters.
Anna is alone in here apartment in London.
The next morning when she wakes up, Anna thinks about the dream she had last night: “Steven and Anna live in Polreath. Their relationship is ending, because she is in love with Tristan. She she sees Tristan every day”.
Anna realizes she does not want to live in Polreath. Suddenly Steven calls Anna.
Anna’s heart is freezes; Steven wants to talk with Anna about what happened, he knows about the kiss with Tristan.