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Three Summers
Margarita Liberaki · 2021
With A New Introduction By Polly Samson, Sunday Times Bestselling Author Of A Theatre For Dreamers 'gorgeous... The Written Equivalent Of Lying In The Sun Eating Figs' India Knight, Sunday Times 'that Summer We Bought Big Straw Hats. Maria's Had Cherries Around The Rim, Infanta's Had Forget-me-nots, And Mine Had Poppies As Red As Fire. . .' Three Summers Is A Warm And Tender Tale Of Three Sisters Growing Up In The Countryside Near Athens Before The Second World War. Living In A Ramshackle Old House With Their Divorced Mother Are Flirtatious, Hot-headed Maria, Beautiful But Distant Infanta, And Dreamy And Rebellious Katerina, Through Whose Eyes The Story Is Mostly Observed. Over Three Summers, The Girls Share And Keep Secrets, Fall In And Out Of Love, Try To Understand The Strange Ways Of Adults And Decide What Kind Of Adults They Hope To Become. 'the Sun Has Disappeared From Books These Days... You Are One Of Those Who Pass It On' Albert Camus To Margarita Liberaki 'the Literary Equivalent Of A Sun-soaked Holiday In Greece' Culture Whisper 'a Leisurely, Large-hearted Coming-of-age Novel, Earthy And Innocent, Nostalgic And Beautifully Rendered' Kirkus 'a Dreamy, Cinematic Tapestry Of Greek Village Life' Npr
The Trio
Hedman, Johanna · 2023
Elegant, mature and richly atmospheric, a bittersweet love story glimpsed through the veil of memory<br/><br/>'The love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited... Sublime and elegiac' Francesca Reece<br/><br/>'[A] heady mix of hope and nostalgia, of desire and regret, of new love and lost love' Sunday Times<br/><br/>Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds. One is an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old-world elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically.<br/><br/>Years later, Hugo is long estranged from Thora and August when their daughter knocks on his door. She has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days of youth come flooding back.<br/><br/>Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close.<br/><br/>'Remarkably assured... Sharp, vividly imagined and affecting, [it] intrigues and captivates' Irish Times<br/><br/>'An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia' Gefle Dagblad
Sunburn
Chloe Michellq Howarth · 2023
<p><b>** Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2024 **</b><br><b>** Shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award by the British Book Awards **<br>** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction **<br>** Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2024 **<br>** An <i>Evening Standard</i> 'One to Watch in 2023 **<br>** An <i>Independent</i> ‘Best Romantic Summer Reads' **<br>** A Book of the Month pick for <i>Diva</i>, <i>Irish Examiner</i>, <i>Novellic </i>& <i>Sainsbury’s Magazine</i> **<br>** A Most Anticipated pick for <i>PinkNews</i> & <i>Queer on the Street</i> **</b></p><br> <p>It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.</p><br> <p>Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.</p><br> <p>Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.</p><br> <p>But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.</p><br> <p><b><i>Sunburn</i> is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. An atmospheric sapphic love story and coming-of-age novel with the intensity of Megan Nolan's <i>Acts of Desperation</i>, the long hot summer of André Aciman's <i>Call Me By Your Name</i> and the female friendships of Anna Hope's <i>Expectation</i>.</b></p><br> <p>‘A tender and heartfelt coming-of-age tale’ – <b><i>Heat</i></b></p><br> <p>‘A compassionate take on the push and pull between what's expected and what is felt’ – <b><i>Herald</i></b></p><br> <p>‘A deeply moving, heartfelt love story’ – <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b></p><br> <p>‘Lucy tells her story in a true, compelling voice, with an eye for minutiae, quaint apercus, and confidences that make her account moving and convincing’ – <b><i>SAGA Magazine</i></b></p><br> <p>‘Tender and poignant... Ideal reading for the last month of summer’ – <b><i>Diva</i></b></p><br> <p>'Intense and all-consuming - like the first love it describes - <i>Sunburn</i> transported me to the heart of summer and the heady days of late adolescence. I won't soon forget Chloe Michelle Howarth's addictive, lushly written debut' - <b>Laura Sims</b></p><br> <p>'Capturing all the intensity of first love, blended with the claustrophobia of small-town life, this debut, inspired by real experience, is tender and raw' - <b><i>The Bookseller</i></b></p><br> <p>'A beautiful coming of age love novel written with an insightful poetical prose, rich with religious allegory and texture which underscores the transformative, spiritual power of first love explored' - <b><i>Scene Magazine</i></b></p>
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams · 2021
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Where The Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
