Summer Fruit
Summer Fruit is a 1929 omnibus volume by the English author Dornford Yates containing the two novels Anthony Lyveden and Valerie [French (novel)|Valerie French].
It was published by Minton, Balch & Company of New York. No similar omnibus volume was published in the UK.
Plot
The book is divided into Part 1 and Part 2, being the equivalent of the two source novels. The chapter headings are the same as for the UK edition of those novels.In Part 1, Anthony Lyveden DSO, a destitute ex-officer, is forced to take a job as a footman at the Gramarye estate. The estate's owner, Colonel Winchester, becomes mad and leaves Lyveden in charge under a power of attorney. The situation drives Lyveden himself to madness.
In Part 2, Anthony Lyveden loses his memory, and confuses the two women who love him: Valerie French and André Strongi’th’arm.