The First Act of Summer
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The first thing Hester used to do when she arrived for summer holidays on the Spit was see Elias, bump fists and go running off to their den.
She hasn't seen him for forty-five years now. It's her sixtieth birthday, and a part of her thinks she hasn't really been herself since those teenage summers.
If only she hadn't done those terrible things, that summer of 1976. To Elias. To his mother. The ripple effect became dreadful, changing everything.
As Hester returns to her family's old beach hut to hide from her life - the husband she might be leaving, the grown-up daughters she has never fully understood - she has to ask: is it ever too late to become the person you were meant to be?
And is it too late to find Elias again?
From the Costa-shortlisted author of The Other Half of Augusta Hope, All My Mothers and Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly, this is a beautifully observed and emphatically life-affirming novel about finding peace, finding love, and most importantly, finding a way to be yourself.
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The first thing Hester used to do when she arrived for summer holidays on the Spit was see Elias, bump fists and go running off to their den.
She hasn't seen him for forty-five years now. It's her sixtieth birthday, and a part of her thinks she hasn't really been herself since those teenage summers.
If only she hadn't done those terrible things, that summer of 1976. To Elias. To his mother. The ripple effect became dreadful, changing everything.
As Hester returns to her family's old beach hut to hide from her life - the husband she might be leaving, the grown-up daughters she has never fully understood - she has to ask: is it ever too late to become the person you were meant to be?
And is it too late to find Elias again?
From the Costa-shortlisted author of The Other Half of Augusta Hope, All My Mothers and Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly, this is a beautifully observed and emphatically life-affirming novel about finding peace, finding love, and most importantly, finding a way to be yourself.