The Girls of Summer
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  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529177060
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99

The Girls of Summer

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Paperback
3 Sep 2024
Tr. Paperback
30 May 2023
EBook
25 May 2023
Audiobook
25 May 2023
Hardback
25 Jun 2023
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The explosive and conversation-starting debut from a stunning new talent, exploring themes of consent and power, abuse and victimhood, memory and how victims can reclaim their voices.

The last time Rachel saw the girls, they were teenagers island-hopping in Greece: making friends, finding love. One golden summer.

Now in her thirties, she’s never been able to forget the man she fell in love with back then. Even though he is almost twenty years older than her. Even though she hasn’t seen him since and she’s now married to someone else.

And when she crosses paths with one of the girls, she’s confronted with a truth that’s much darker than she ever realized.

What really happened to them all that summer?
What if everything she remembers is a lie?

The Girls of Summer is a compulsive and searching exploration of the complicated nature of memory and trauma, power and consent, victimhood and shame.
  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529177060
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Katie Bishop

Katie Bishop is a writer and journalist based in the UK. She grew up in the Midlands before moving to Oxford to work in publishing in her early twenties. Whilst working as an assistant editor she started writing articles in her spare time, going on to be published in the New York Times, Guardian, Independent and Vogue.

Katie started writing The Girls of Summer during the first UK COVID lockdown, after becoming increasingly interested in stories emerging from the #MeToo movement. The novel is inspired by her own experiences of backpacking, and by her interest in how our personal narratives can be reshaped and understood in light of cultural and social changes.

In 2020, Katie moved back to the Midlands, and now lives in Birmingham with her partner. She is a full-time writer.

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