Darkly funny summer of friendship, bad men, secrets
Best friends Laura and Dee spend a wild summer waitressing at a Long Island country club in the early noughties, a season that ends with a dead body and a secret buried between them. Twenty years later, an unexpected email forces them to confront what really happened that deadly summer, in a sharply funny, heartfelt novel about friendship, bad men and the past that never quite stays buried.
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Darkly funny summer of friendship, bad men, secrets
Best friends Laura and Dee spend a wild summer waitressing at a Long Island country club in the early noughties, a season that ends with a dead body and a secret buried between them. Twenty years later, an unexpected email forces them to confront what really happened that deadly summer, in a sharply funny, heartfelt novel about friendship, bad men and the past that never quite stays buried.
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They said they’d never let a man get in the way of their friendship...
Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together.
It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer’s tans.
They’d imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim.
Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen.
And Other Josh… he’s something else entirely.
It’s a miracle only one of them ends up dead.
Dee is pretty sure she didn’t mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked.
Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It’s finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back.
A hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it’s the novel you didn’t know you needed.
- About The Author
- Emer McLysaght is the former editor of The Daily Edge and has worked extensively in journalism and radio.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526692177
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, (21 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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