Every summer after by Carley Fortune book review

 

"A radiant debut."--Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation author and #1 New York Times bestselling book

BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 THAT IS HIGHLY EXCITED—PopSugar

To fall in love takes six summers. It only takes a moment to crumble. A whole weekend to get it perfect.

It is said that you can never go home again, and Persephone Fraser has found that to be all too true ever since she committed the biggest mistake of her life ten years ago. She spends her summers in a chic flat in the city, going out with friends and keeping everyone at a safe distance from her heart, rather than the shimmering shoreline vacations she remembers from her childhood.

That is, until she gets the call that forces her to return quickly to Barry's Bay and into Sam Florek's life, the guy she never imagined having to live without.

Percy and Sam had been inseparable for six summers, spending warm nights and foggy afternoons on the sea, working at his family's restaurant, and curling up with books—she with horror short tales in progress, and him with medical textbooks. That friendship eventually developed into something amazing before it abruptly ended.

Their bond remains unbreakable even when Percy returns to the lake for Sam's mother's funeral. They'll never know, though, if their love is stronger than their greatest past transgressions, until Percy faces the choices she made and the years she's spent punishing herself for them.

Every Summer After is a grand, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and decisions that forever change our lives, spanning six years and one weekend.