β Scribed by Martine Murray
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In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband Mike becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, start to surfaceβwith devastating effect. And while teenagers Tilly and Ben are about to step out into the world, nine-year-old Ada is holding onto a childhood that might soon be lost to her.
When Ada discovers an abandoned well beneath a rusting windmill, she is drawn to its darkness and danger. And when she witnesses a shocking and confusing event, the wellβs foreboding looms large in her mindβa driving force, pushing the family to the brink of tragedy. For each family member, itβs a summer of searchingβin books and trees, at parties, in relationships new and oldβfor the answer to one of lifeβs most difficult questions: how to grow up?
The Last Summer of Ada Bloomis an honest and tender accounting of what it means to come of age as a teen, or as an adult. With a keen eye for summerβs languor and danger, and a sharp ear for the wonder, doubt, and longing in each of her charactersβ voices, Martine Murray has written a beguiling story about the fragility of family relationships, about the secrets we keep, the power they hold to shape our lives, and about the power of love to somehow hold it all together.
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