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An absorbing, bittersweet read with well-developed characters. I will definitely be keeping an eye on this author!
*Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an e-galley in exchange for an honest review.
I REALLY loved The Summer List and fell in love with the characters from page one. A truly heartwarming story of two childhood friends who have a falling out as teenagers but are brought back together by a scavenger hunt. Great debut novel!
This novel was set in 2016 with flashbacks to the 1990's and earlier. It is about friendships, identity and families. Laura and Casey were best friends during their high school years. They drifted apart and then get a chance to have a reunion after 17 years.
This book hitches on a very relatable idea - that you are invited back to the town where you grew up, where you had a best friend,you did scavenger hunts with.
Going back to where you were brought up brings back a unique set of memories but when it’s coupled with bad memories, things you can’t quite remember and things you’d rather forget, it’s quite another matter.
This was a journey of discovery in more ways than one and I was keen to find out what that scavenger hunt was going to reveal. Would you want to reconnect with someone from your past in this way? Just think of all the growing pains, issues which would be best kept in the past, if they should come to the fore?
These two women at the start of the book are estranged - not unlike the two leading character in the movie Beaches . It’s only as the story develops that you realise the consequences of one day, one night and hundreds of locked memories.
Two friends, secrets, memories, second chances and making sense of the past. A coming of age novel and with the twist of the scavenger hunt, a nice new twist on the genre