Summer Hours

Name: Summer Hours
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781846976711
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By Alessandra Thom

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Brief Description

It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work, and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve. When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant amount of money under the guise... Read More

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Summer Hours

A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story about youth and desire, class and wealth, secrets and mistakes, sex and obsession.

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It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work, and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve.

When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant amount of money under the guise of 'freelance work', Roisin thinks her luck might finally be changing. But Claire's proposal is not all it seems, and soon Roisin finds herself trapped. Paralysed by both her intense infatuation with Eve and her secret arrangement with Claire, Roisin must walk a delicate line to avoid losing what matters to her most.

Everything about this book is alive. I inhaled it. — Maria Sledmere, author and critic

A spry tale of friendship and desire, best inhaled in a single sitting. Summer Hours is astute, funny, and fizzing with life. — Malachy Tallack

Alessandra's writing is both vivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise, and an enviable instinct for rhythm. — Daisy Lafarge

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781846976711

Publisher: Birlinn General

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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Alessandra Thom Fiction General Fiction Humour Literary Fiction

About the Author

Alessandra Thomis a writer from Aberdeenshire. She was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 and the second-place runner-up in theShort FictionInternational Short Story Prize 2024. Her short fiction has appeared inGutter.Summer Hoursis her first novel.