Summer lightning

Lucy is Andrew's loving fiancee, but Andrew flirts with her best friend. The year is 1913, and the English expatriates living in the small Portuguese copper-mining town of San Domingos are singularly self-absorbed, uncomprehending, and unappreciative of the people among whom they live and work. Threatened uprisings among the miners and a dangerous underground explosion, with the depradations by wolves and the eternal heat and scarcity of water, are merely irritants to their pleasure-seeking way of life.