Essie Summers. Bride in Flight. London: Mills & Boon, 1964.
Bride in Flight is an early novel with a setting near Haast in South Westland.
Case 14 - Novels, Further Afield
Essie Summers. The House on Gregor's Brae. London: Mills & Boon, 1971.
The House on Gregor’s Brae is her one novel set mostly abroad – in the Trossachs of Scotland – but the story begins here in the Edinburgh of the South.
Essie Summers. South Island Stowaway. London: Mills & Boon, 1971.
Most of South Island Stowaway takes place in Port Underwood, adjacent to the Marlborough Sounds. It opens with the heroine, who unwittingly unlocks the door to the wrong car, and travels to an unexpected destination. This plot element was inspired by an incident involving Essie’s daughter, Elizabeth. She unlocked the wrong car, very similar to her own, parked close by in Dunedin.
Essie Summers. The Tender Leaves. London: Mills & Boon, 1980.
Essie Summers. A Lamp for Jonathan. London: Mills & Boon, 1982.
In 1976, Essie and William retired to Napier. Two of her later novels, A Lamp for Jonathan and The Tender Leaves, feature locations in Hawkes Bay and as far as Northland.