Summer's Lease

A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic

Release date : 1989-11-01

Production country :

United Kingdom,

United States of America

Production company :

BBC,

GBH

Network :

BBC One,

PBS

Status : Ended

Total Season : 1

Total episode : 4

Popularity : 0.903

7.3 Total Vote : 7

Drama

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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.