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The Summer List

The Summer List
  • Author(s): Amy Mason Doan
  • Location(s): Lake Tahoe (California)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the tradition of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters, The Summer List is a tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later—until the clues expose a...

The Summer of Ellen

The Summer of Ellen
  • Author(s): Agnete Friis, Sinead Quirke Kongerskov (translator)
  • Location(s): Jutland, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1978

Agnete Friis returns with a lyrical, suspenseful new standalone set in rural Denmark that moves between the present and the summer of 1978, exploring obsession, toxic masculinity and the tricks we play on our own memory. Jacob, a middle-aged...

The Summer of Going Topless

The Summer of Going Topless
  • Author(s): Liz Davies
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Candice Summerville is fast approaching fifty-years-old and wonders if she might be invisible. No one seems to notice her – not really. Heck, she often doesn’t notice herself, except for her monthly scrutiny in the mirror to check on...

The Summer of Princess Diana

The Summer of Princess Diana
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1981

Diana Driscoll has no problem manipulating her father into funding her whirlwind tour of London to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in the summer of 1981. There’s no way she’d miss the wedding of the...

The Summer of Second Chances

The Summer of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Madeleine Whickham (Sophie Kinsella)
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Present day

Lottie is about to discover that even when you think you’ve lost everything, hope and romance can be just around the corner . . . It takes time to build your life. To get into a long-term (OK, a...

The Summer of Secrets

The Summer of Secrets
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Kastellorizo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

In this emotional novel based on Greece’s real history we follow three generations of one family, broken apart by secrets and war, as Olivia travels to the island of her mother’s birth to piece together a century’s worth of...

The Summer of the Spanish Woman

The Summer of the Spanish Woman
  • Author(s): Catherine Gaskin
  • Location(s): Jerez
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Set at the beginning of the last century, and spanning the First World War and the Spanish Civil War, this is a gripping story of family pride, forbidden love, secrets and lies. When her grandfather dies without leaving a...

The Summer Place

The Summer Place
  • Author(s): Jennifer Weiner
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and contemporary

From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When Veronica Levy bought her dream house on the Outer Cape, she imagined a...

The Summer that Melted Everything

The Summer that Melted Everything
  • Author(s): Tiffany McDaniel
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1984

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil...

The Summer Villa

The Summer Villa
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three women. One summer reunion. Secrets will be revealed… Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amidst dappled lemon groves and the fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and...

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