This Summer's Secrets
  • Published: 13 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241481905
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $19.99

This Summer's Secrets

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13 Jun 2023
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8 Jun 2023
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One hot summer, first love, so many buried secrets . . .
A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, intertwining past and present, love and loss, from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks

A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, intertwining past and present, love and loss, from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks.

'A sun-splashed Cornish thriller with a dark heart, ideal for YA fans of E Lockhart' Guardian

ONE HOT SUMMER, FIRST LOVE AND SO MANY BURIED SECRETS . . .

Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything.

Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to Cornwall for the summer. This year, despite herself, Senara finds herself pulled into this world of wealth and ease, sunbathing and beautiful people. She even finds herself falling in love for the first time.

But Cliff House and its owners are hiding things. They've been hiding things for too long and now, despite all their efforts, their secrets are coming out . . . Secrets that involve Senara's friends and her family in a way she could never have imagined.

'This is another young adult novel that will have younger readers transfixed' The Metro
'A slow-burn summer novel packed with intrigue' Culturefly - 22 Books to add to your Summer Reading List


Read more captivating fiction from Emily Barr:

The One Memory of Flora Banks
The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods
Things to do Before the End of the World
Ghosted
  • Published: 13 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241481905
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Emily Barr

Emily Barr worked as a journalist in London but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, which gave her an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and she has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world. The One Memory of Flora Banks is her first novel for young adults. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.

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Also by Emily Barr

The Other Girl
Penguin Readers Level 5: This Summer's Secrets (ELT Graded Reader)
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Ghosted
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Things to do Before the End of the World
The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods
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Praise for This Summer's Secrets

Original plot and charming protagonist . . . Her [Emily's] page-turning talents are put to good use as the reader accompanies a brave teenager on a journey to discover who she really is.

Irish Times on The One Memory of Flora Banks

Mesmerizing, electric, and achingly lovely . . . One of the best YA novels I've read in a very long time

Jennifer Niven on The One Memory of Flora Banks

If you like dark fiction you'll devour it

Heat - on The Truth and Lies of Ella Black

A slow-burn summer novel packed with intrigue.

Culturefly - 22 Books to add to your Summer Reading List

Will have readers transfixed

Metro

A sun-splashed Cornish thriller with a dark heart, ideal for YA fans of E Lockhart.

Guardian - Summer reading: 50 brilliant books to discover

An intoxicating mix of mystery, suspense and first love.

The Daily Mirror

A perfect holiday page-turner.

The Sunday Express
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