Summer's Lease Poster

Summer's Lease

First Air Date: 1989-11-01

Status: Ended

Rating: ⭐ 7.5/10 (6 votes)

Genres: Drama

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.

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Top Cast

Susan Fleetwood
Susan Fleetwood
as Molly Pargeter
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
as Haverford Downs
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington
as Hugh Pargeter
Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Leach
as Nancy Leadbetter
Caroline Waldron
Caroline Waldron
as Henry Pargeter
Veronica Lazăr
Veronica Lazăr
as Baronessa Dulcibene

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