(Summer's Lease)

Overview: 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.

Countries:

United Kingdom,

United States of America

Genres:

Drama

Networks:

BBC One,

PBS

Year:

1989

Directors:

Martyn Friend

Production companies:

BBC,

GBH

Actors:

Molly Pargeter

Haverford Downs

Hugh Pargeter

Nancy Leadbetter

Henry Pargeter

Crews:

Director

Novel

Screenplay

Producer

Original Music Composer