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One Italian Summer
On sale
1st March 2022
Price: £9.99
WILL THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME HELP KATY FIND HER WAY HOME?
‘Rebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms’ GABRIELLE ZEVIN
‘An extraordinary, beautiful, magical book’ JILL MANSELL
When Katy’s mother dies, she’s left reeling from the loss. Carol had been her best friend, her anchor, and they’d been so close to their dream of travelling to Positano together.
Feeling untethered from her own life and unable to connect with anyone, Katy makes a rash decision. In a bid to keep her mother close, she follows in a young Carol’s footsteps, flying to Italy alone.
Katy had imagined a holiday painted by grief but finds more comfort than she had expected. Then, in a sharp twist of fate, Carol’s past and Katy’s present collide, leaving Katy to wonder if she ever really knew her mother at all…
‘A clever, immersive novel – gorgeous!’ CESCA MAJOR, author of Maybe Next Time
‘Really can’t recommend this enough – beautiful, inspiring . . . the perfect summer read’ Reader review
‘Breathtakingly original and heartbreakingly emotional’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, author of Love Struck
‘Rebecca Serle is now officially an auto buy author for me’ Reader review
‘Startlingly fresh and utterly compelling’ HOLLY MILLER, author of What Might Have Been
‘Beautifully heartbreaking and reaffirming all at once’ Reader review
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Reviews
[One Italian Summer is] wonderful on grief and love, and every reader lucky enough to still have their mother will want to hug her tight after this
Rebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms
I loved In Five Years but with One Italian Summer Rebecca has truly excelled herself. An extraordinary, beautiful, magical book. (And now I NEED to visit Positano...)
One Italian Summer is a feast for the senses. Serle is the queen of taking a truly original idea and breathing life and heart into every corner of it. I couldn't love her books more
One Italian Summer is the perfect escapist read. Compelling, moving and masterfully told
Breathtakingly original and heartbreakingly emotional, One Italian Summer is a tearjerker of a masterpiece that combines family, romance, and feeling lost, found and hopeful, set against the hauntingly evocative backdrop of one of the most beautiful places on earth. I was floored by it
Startlingly fresh and utterly compelling, One Italian Summer is a spellbinding story of love, loss and hope, so beautifully depicted I felt I lived and breathed every word of Katy's journey along with her. It's extraordinary storytelling - a book with magic on every page
Honestly what a book - she's so bloody clever - sparing with words but able to write with real poetry. The whole book was so vivid and gorgeous and I am SO HERE for women's fiction that surprises - which this did in spades. Loved it and would read anything she ever writes
Rebecca Serle has crafted a beautiful love story which shows her character's grief slowly ebbing away and being replaced by something new
There is more than a touch of magic in this new novel from the author of In Five Years. Beautifully and sensitively written, exploring themes of grief, loss and the power of love, this haunting, touching tale is sure to get under your skin
This is a captivating and poignant read, exploring relationships, the importance of family bonds and how we carry on after loss
A beautiful love story that turns its own pages as you are sucked into the Italian sun
Rebecca Serle writes such clever and original stories, ones which never turn out how I expected (this is a good thing!) and are full of emotion
In these cynical times full of snark and memes, it's nice to surrender to magic every now and then
A beautiful love story that turns its own pages as you are sucked into the Italian summer sun
A gorgeous story that swept me away to Italy - breathtaking!
Poignant and beautiful exploration of loss, grief and how we heal our hearts