Queer Longing Burns Through a 1990s Irish Summer
Secrecy and place give Sunburn its slow, burning power. Chloe Michelle Howarth follows Lucy’s longing inside a conservative Irish village, making the novel compelling for readers drawn to queer coming-of-age stories filled with heat, tenderness and risk. The atmosphere makes the desire sharper.
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Queer Longing Burns Through a 1990s Irish Summer
Secrecy and place give Sunburn its slow, burning power. Chloe Michelle Howarth follows Lucy’s longing inside a conservative Irish village, making the novel compelling for readers drawn to queer coming-of-age stories filled with heat, tenderness and risk. The atmosphere makes the desire sharper.
- Book Synopsis
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It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.
Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.
Ideal for readers who:
- Seek beautiful queer coming-of-age fiction exploring intense secrecy, passionate first love and self-recognition.
- Care deeply about Lucy and Susannah as longing, community fear and agonizing choices close in on them.
- Understand the backdrop of a conservative 1990s Irish village as a powerful force narrowing every future path.
- Prefer intimate, sun-heated prose where emotional tenderness and social risk sit painfully close together.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780857308412
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Verve Books, (22 June 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 285
- Weight
- 196 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 20 mm
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