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Summertime
Vanessa Lafaye
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Description for Summertime
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252.
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 Henry, who went to fight on the battlefields of France. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409155393
SKU
V9781409155393
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About 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.
Reviews for Summertime
A 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 BOOKSELLER
'Powerful, beautifully written and simply unputdownable. If you can read this ... Read more
THE BOOKSELLER
'Powerful, beautifully written and simply unputdownable. If you can read this ... Read more