SuitabookGrief and returning home
Kate and her sisters return to the family’s Cape Cod beach house after their mother’s death and a three-year absence.
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Iva-Marie Palmer - Author
This is a relationship-centred summer story about returning to a meaningful family place while navigating grief, an old crush and a sister’s complicated history with the same boy. Kate’s ambitions and self-understanding also form part of the story.
"For Kate Sommers, there's nothing that compares to summer at her family's beach house on Cape Cod: the ocean breezes, the clam bakes, the boys. She and her three sisters seemed to have all their "firsts" over those long months-first job, first party, first crush. Kate's first crush is her only crush-Ryan Landry, the boy next door and her older sister Eliza's on-again, off-again summer fling. But it's been three years since Kate and her sisters have spent a summer in Cape Cod. When their mom died, no one could imagine going back without her. Now eighteen, the whole Sommers family is headed to the Cape for Eliza's wedding and Kate must find the strength to be there for her family. When Kate spots Ryan, she realizes how much has changed since he last set eyes on her. She isn't the gawky fifteen-year-old that she once was, and this could be the summer that Ryan finally takes notice. Eliza says she's moved on, but Kate knows better than anyone that Ryan Landry isn't the kind of guy you give up without a fight..."--Page [4] of cover.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a relationship-centred summer story about returning to a meaningful family place while navigating grief, an old crush and a sister’s complicated history with the same boy. Kate’s ambitions and self-understanding also form part of the story.
Kate and her sisters return to the family’s Cape Cod beach house after their mother’s death and a three-year absence.
Kate has a long-standing crush on Ryan, who was involved with her older sister Eliza, and Kate considers pursuing him when the family reunites for Eliza’s wedding.
The book includes the death of Kate’s mother, romantic rivalry involving a sister’s former boyfriend, secrecy around a relationship, and reported stalking of a former girlfriend.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough.
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