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| Plot Summary of The Summerhouse |
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Jude Deveraux
Pocket, May 2001, 24.95, 368 pp.
ISBN: 0671014188
Almost two decades ago, the three women met for the first time at the New York City Motor Vehicle Bureau. The trio shared the same birth date. They ultimately followed different paths into adulthood. Leslie, a natural dancer, married the boy next door and now has two teenage children. Madison expected to become a great model. Ellie became the very successful author Alexandria Farrell though she has not written anything in three years. Now, on the verge of their fortieth birthdays, they plan to get together in a SUMMERHOUSE in Maine.
Overall life has been okay, but there have been major bumps for each of them. In Maine, Madame Zoya offers to each one of them the opportunity to relive any three weeks in their lives. If they believe and have the fortitude, will they choose a pleasant memory or something they want altered with a second chance at life?
Though used in movies and books quite often, Jude Deveraux provides a fresh perspective to the reliving of pivotal moments in one's life. She does that through her fully understandable three middle-aged women rhetorically wondering if that is all there is? The story line works as readers observe the choices made by the women and believe that history is being rewritten at least on a small scale. As expected from Ms. Deveraux, the characters make the novel leading to the audience whimsically pondering “if that could only be me, I would choose to relive...”
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Inner struggle subplot
Yes
Struggle with...
- (general) search for identity/new understanding
- midlife crisis
Time Travel
Yes
Type of time travel
- present to past
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- business executive
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
Sex has good effect on him
Yes
Sex makes him
- sensitive
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- writer
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
What % of story is romance related?
- 50%
Focus of story
- many multiple characters
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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