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The Last Summer

The Last Summer

Author(s): Andree Michaud

Location(s): Québec, Maine

Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery

Era(s): 1967

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Previously published as “Boundary” in hardback

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction 2014

Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017

Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015

Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017

A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline’s The Girls

It’s the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary Pond, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ and ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air.

Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blonde Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.

But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over…

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Author: tripfiction

The novel is set on the border of the USA and Canada (Maine and Quebec) in 1967, in the resort of Bondrée. It’s 1967. It is the kind of rural and bucolic place that...

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