Same time next summer /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]Description: 302 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593544969
- 059354496X
- 813/.6 23/eng/20230221
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Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Paperback | Hayden Library | Book - Paperback | MONAGHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 06/03/2024 | 50610024248267 | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Bursting with the magic of first love, it's everything I want in a summer romance." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER
Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple * Reader's Digest * Country Living * The Skimm * BookBub * GoodReads
Beach Rules:
Do take long walks on the sand.
Do put an umbrella in every cocktail.
Do NOT run into your first love.
Sam's life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family's Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there's no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?
Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt's guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed--Sam's memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt's skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.
Includes discussion questions.
"The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself"--
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Publishers Weekly Review
Monaghan (Nora Goes Off Script) reunites first loves in this masterful romance. Once a free spirit, Sam Holloway has sought practicality and predictability ever since her high school boyfriend, Wyatt Pope, broke her heart, leading her to a stuffy job as an HR consultant and engagement to a straitlaced doctor, Jack. On the brink of losing her job due to a misstep with a client, Sam returns to her family's Long Island summer home to regroup and scope out a potential wedding venue with Jack--only to discover that Wyatt, a singer songwriter, is also back in town to host a music festival. Sam is thrown ("Wyatt is a locked-away memory of a time I don't want to go back to and a person I can barely remember being. And somehow he's thirty feet away, right next door"), but believes she'll be able to avoid Wyatt--until Jack's parents show up and Jack asks to extend the trip. Sam's mother urges her to find closure with Wyatt, but the closeness brings up old feelings and memories of carefree summers together at the beach, leading Sam to question her life choices. Monaghan nails the second-chance romance trope, allowing the love between her leads to rekindle slowly as they forge a satisfying path to forgiveness (the reveal that Wyatt's love songs are about Sam doesn't hurt). This is a knockout. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Rusoff Agency. (June)Kirkus Book Review
On the eve of her wedding, a woman runs into the teenage love who broke her heart. Sam has her life all figured out. She's got Jack, her perfect doctor fiance; a nice Manhattan apartment; and a job she's good at (even if she might have just messed it up). Now she's headed out to her family's Long Island beach house to tour a potential wedding venue and finally introduce Jack to the kind of summers she grew up with, even though they might be a little less straight-laced than he's used to. What she wasn't anticipating was that Wyatt--the boy next door she was in love with all through her childhood and whom she hasn't seen since she was 17, when he broke her heart--would be there, cheerfully enmeshed back in her family. Long-forgotten feelings bubble under the surface as Sam must figure out if the life she's created is the one she really wants. The book jumps back and forth in time, starting in the present and flashing back chronologically through Sam and Wyatt's growing-up years, relationship, and breakup. This means there's a lot of buildup for the inevitable split, and it's impossible for the breakup not to feel like a letdown. The story also feels lopsided in that the modern-day sections (with one small exception) are narrated by Sam while the flashback sections alternate between Sam's and Wyatt's points of view. While that structure does let the reader understand why Wyatt did what he did as a teen, it's an odd contrast with the mysterious Wyatt of the present. The book would have been stronger if it had either fully stayed with Sam's journey or followed both leads. Interesting side characters are left disappointingly half-baked to focus on fairly standard protagonists. A love story with a lot of bark but little bite. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Annabel Monaghan is the author of IndieNext and LibraryReads pick Nora Goes Off Script as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in the Huffington Post , the Week, and the Rye Record . She lives in Rye, New York, with her family.There are no comments on this title.