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Sunburn
Shortlisted For The Polari First Book Prize 2024
language: english
Publisher:
Verve Books, June of 2023 ‧
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SYNOPSIS
Shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award by the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction
An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023
An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads'
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.
Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction
An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023
An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads'
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.
REVIEWS
Intense and all-consuming - like the first love it describes - Sunburn transported me to the heart of summer and the heady days of late adolescence. I won't soon forget Chloe Michelle Howarth's addictive, lushly written debut - Laura Sims, author of Looker
A deeply moving, heartfelt love story - Daily Mail
'A tender and heartfelt coming-of-age tale' - Heat
This is a compassionate take on the push and pull between what's expected and what is felt. - The Herald
A tender coming-of-age novel and a heartfelt sapphic love story - ELLE Canada
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780857308412 |
| Publisher: | Verve Books |
| Release Date: | June of 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 127 x 164 x 17 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
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| EAN: | 9780857308412 |
REVIEWS
Most beautiful sapphic story
Caia
The most beautiful, immersive coming of age and coming out sapphic story. From the late eighties to the early nineties we follow Lucy tackling her strange feelings for her friend Susannah, that arise when she’s fifteen, her supposed match with her childhood best friend Martin, her friendship with her group of girls, the love for her family and her town, and her lack of direction and courage. It’s a love story, a candid one, with betrayals, hidden relationships and feelings, and a growing into oneself story, of making sense of desires and wants, and finding oneself in the midst of the contrary and difficult wishes and morals of family and friends.
Boa história sapphic
Daniela Almeida
Uma leitura super bonita e emocional sobre a uma rapariga a descobrir a sua sexualidade numa sociedade que nao aceita pessoas como ela. Muitas das personagens eram insuportáveis, incluindo alguns momentos com as duas personagens principais, o que tornou a leitura pro vezes um pouco dificil. Apesar de ter adorado a história, não amei o tipo de escrita.
Uma história bela e angustiante sobre descoberta numa Irlanda dos anos 90
Filipa M.
Chloe Michelle Howarth traz-nos em Sunburn a história de Lucy, uma jovem irlandesa que, em plenos anos 90, vivendo numa localidade marcada por um conservadorismo religioso, descobre que está apaixonada pela sua amiga, Susannah. A escrita desta autora é de uma beleza arrebatadora. O livro tem personagens bem desenvolvidas, multifacetadas e com relações bastante complexas. Na minha opinião, a personagem mais interessante de ler foi, sem dúvida, Lucy, a protagonista. Quando passamos a história toda na cabeça dela, diria que é impossível isto não acontecer. Vê-la crescer, acompanhar os vários conflitos internos que a atormentavam e, acima de tudo, ver o amor que ela sentia por Susannah, foi de cortar a respiração.
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