***Sunburn* is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. An atmospheric LGBTQIA+ love story and coming-of-age novel with the intensity of Megan Nolan's *Acts of Desperation*, the
Sunburn
β Scribed by Chloe Michelle Howarth
- Book ID
- 111907175
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- ar-SA
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780857308412
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β¦ Synopsis
Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. An atmospheric LGBTQIA+ love story and coming-of-age novel with the intensity of Megan Nolan's Acts of Desperation , the long hot summer of AndrΓ Aciman's Call Me By Your Name and the female friendships of Anna Hope's Expectation.
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...
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