Summary
Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes. THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional and gripping debut novel.
In the small town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted her life pining for Henr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409155393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1409155390 |
| Author: | Vanessa LaFaye |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 132mm x 25mm |
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Powerful, beautifully written and simply unputdownable. If you can read this book and not be moved, you have a heart of stone
I absolutely loved SUMMERTIME; it’s rare to read something with such emotional intensity and such exciting pace. It is every bit as good as THE HELP, in my opinionA storming debut novel [that] captures the racial and social tensions in southern America after the First World War. Part social history and part love story, this features the hurricane as a forceful, malevolent character in its own right, whipping through the pages - THE BOOKSELLER1935. An Independence day BBQ simmers with racial tension and resentments. By morning, a terrible crime has been committed. Off the Florida coast, a hurricane is heading their way. So tense, I raced through it. - WOMAN & HOMECombining a moving love story with a fascinating slice of US history, this powerful novel is hard to put down - HELLO magazineAbout The Author
Vanessa LaFaye
Vanessa Lafaye was born in Tallahassee and raised in Tampa, Florida, where there were hurricanes most years. She first came to the UK in 1987 looking for adventure, and found it. After spells of living in Paris and Oxford, she lived in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Vanessa passed away in February 2018.
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