In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.
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(@PenguinUKBooks, 6 August 2020, 400 pages, ebook, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I've become quite a fan of Smith over the past year since I studied a couple of her books for an English Literature course last year. I've read and thoroughly enjoyed the other books in the seasonal quartet. The books deals with similar themes, ideas and concepts but don't feature the same events or characters. If you read Smith you'll recognise her distractive style and structure from the rest of the quarter or Hotel World. What impressed me is that a large part of Summer is set now, during the current pandemic but Smith makes very little references to this, it isn't the driving force or the backbone of the book. I'm glad because I don't want to read a Covid-19 novel. The real thing is bad enough. I enjoyed this so much, the characters and the way their lives clash in surprising ways.
